Molly McCloskey was born in the United States in 1964 and has lived in Ireland since 1989. She won the RTE /Francis
MacManus Short Story Award in 1995 and her first book of stories, Solomon’s Seal, was published by Phoenix in 1997. The
Beautiful Changes, a collection which includes a novella and short stories, was published by the Lilliput Press earlier this year.
Molly McCloskey
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)