birth_place citizenship awards nationality notableworks relatives name birth_date language image article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
philadelphia , pennsylvania us francis macmanus award , fish short story prize american another around the sun : in search of a lost brother country , this is n't heaven , circles jack mccloskey molly mccloskey 1964 english molly mccloskey 1216613.jpg molly mccloskey
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molly mccloskey

molly mccloskey -lrb- born 1964 in philadelphia , pennsylvania -rrb- is an american writer who has lived in ireland since 1989 .
her fiction has won the rtÉ francis macmanus award -lrb- 1995 -rrb- and the inaugural fish short story prize -lrb- 1996 -rrb- .
her story `` another country '' was anthologized in `` the faber book of best new irish short stories '' -lrb- 2005 -rrb- , edited by david marcus .
in 2009 , another of her short stories , `` this is n't heaven '' was selected by richard ford as one of the prize-winning stories in the 2009 davy byrne 's irish writing award and was anthologized in `` davy byrne 's stories '' .
her first work of non-fiction , a memoir of her schizophrenic brother mike , called `` circles around the sun : in search of a lost brother '' , was named by the sunday times -lrb- uk -rrb- as its memoir of the year for 2011 .
