Vivienne McKechnie
Born
Vivienne Darling

Dublin
NationalityIrish
Known forPoetry

Vivienne McKechnie is an Irish writer and poet based in Limerick. She has also been an organiser of the Limerick Literary Festival.

Biography

Born Vivienne Darling in Dublin to Dr. Desmond Darling and Audrey Darling (née Butler), she had three sisters. McKechnie attended The Hall School, Monkstown, and then got her degree in Trinity College Dublin. Later McKechnie completed her Creative Writing MA in the University of Limerick. She went on to become a teacher and spent four years in Kenya before moving to Limerick. McKechnie wrote and began to have her poems published. Her debut collection was published in 2013. At least one of her works has been the poem on the Irish Leaving Certificate exams. McKechnie was also selected for inclusion in the Windharp Poetry Anthology for the centenary of 1916.[1][2][3][4]

McKechnie teaches Creative Writing in Limerick and has been a member of the Kate O’Brien Committee, lately the Limerick Literary Festival though previously called the Kate O’Brien Weekend as well as a judge in the Kate O’Brien award. McKechnie was also on the Limerick City Of Culture Committee.[5] McKechnie was the editor of Dream of a City, An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Limerick.[6][7][8][9]

Personal life

McKechnie married her husband after meeting him while in University. The couple had three children, Hannah, Scott and Jessica.[10]

Bibliography

  • A Butterfly's Wing 2013
  • Dream of a City, An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Limerick City of Culture 2014, ed.

Sources

  1. ↑ Murray, Niall (5 June 2015). "STATES EXAMS: Irish poets give completists the advantage". Irish Examiner.
  2. ↑ Writer, Guest (12 December 2013). "Local treasure is rich pickings". Limerick Post Newspaper.
  3. ↑ "Practising the poetic poise she teaches". independent.
  4. ↑ "Members of Writepace". Writepace.
  5. ↑ Kerrigan, Jo (20 February 2014). "Kate O'Brien honoured in her hometown". Irish Examiner.
  6. ↑ "Guests (48) Apr/May 2015". www.obheal.ie.
  7. ↑ ""The black mirror of the internet, doom scrolling and fractured soliloquies"—Elaine Feeney wins the Kate O'Brien Award with debut novel As You Were". Books Ireland. 1 March 2021.
  8. ↑ Irel, Publishing (1 May 2019). "The Kate O'Brien Award Call for Submissions". Publishing Ireland.
  9. ↑ Doyle, Martin. "Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff is new Irish Times Eason offer". The Irish Times.
  10. ↑ "Arts Interview: Vivienne McKechnie". www.limerickleader.ie.
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