Róisín McDermott was born in County Down, in the shadow of the dark Mournes. She now lives in Kildare, via Eglantine Avenue, South Ken and Earls Court. She recently completed an MA in English at NUI
Maynooth. ‘Desire’ is her first published story. Further short fiction will be included in an autumn anthology of new writing from the Irish Writers’ Centre.
Róisín McDermott
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)