Eireann corrigan biography meaning

Born 1977, in NJ. Education: Sarah Lawrence College, B.A.; New York University, M.A.

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Scholastic, Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

Career

Writer.

Writings

You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2002.

Splintering (verse novel), Scholastic (New York, NY), 2004.

Sidelights

New Jersey native Eireann Corrigan began writing poetry as a child, and when her older brother left home to attend high school in Germany, she spent hours writing him verse letters.

Her first published work, You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir, draws from that childhood habit, and teh book's free-verse ponderings regarding the author's relationship to a friend "swirl … with emotion and pain," according to Kliatt contributor Rebecca Rabinowitz.

Corrigan's young-adult novel Splintering, also written in verse, was described by a Publishers Weekly critic as "gripping."

In Splinte