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Biography

Nell Regan was born in London in 1969 and grew up in Dublin where she currently lives and teaches. She studied history at UCD and has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and The Poets' House in Donegal. Her poetry has been widely published and anthologised and Underworld, a chapbook was published by Lapwing in 2004. Her non fiction publications include the first biography of Helena Molony in Female Activists, Irish Women and Change, Woodfield Press, 2002 and the Field Day Anthology Vol 4. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Awards and she received the 2007 Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature. Preparing for Spring, published by Arlen House and distributed by Syracuse University Press in the US, is her debut collection and was nominated for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards.

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Nell Regan, 'Preparing for Spring', Arlen House 2007, Syracuse University Press 2008, photograph and cover image by Sarah FitzGerald
preparingforspring@gmail.com , arlenhouse@gmail.com