Stephanie Conn
STEPHANIE CONN was born in County Down and now lives in County Antrim with her husband and two daughters. In 2013 she graduated from the Creative Writing M.A. Programme at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University, Belfast. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Anam Cara Competition and highly commended in the Doire Press Poetry Chapbook and Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet competitions. The following year she was shortlisted in the Red Line Poetry Competition and her work was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. In 2014 she was highly commended in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook competition and won the Translink Haiku Competition. In 2015 she was awarded the Yeovil Poetry Prize and the inaugural Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing