Maureen Connolly is a native of Chicago, and a dual national of Ireland and the United States. Her poetry and fiction has been published in Hammers, Tomorrow, Limina, Ariel, Poets Against the War, after hours, River Oak Review, and the anthologies Freedom’s Just Another Word, Earth Beneath, Sky Beyond and The Country Doctor Revisited, among others. Readings include Printers Row, Guild Complex, the Chicago Labor and Arts Festival, the Hemingway Museum of Oak Park, Space, the Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Roots Women's Salon, and IBAM at the Irish American Heritage Center. She has received awards from Poets and Patrons of Chicago, the Feminists Writers Guild, and the Illinois Arts Council, and a fiction fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation. She is currently working on a novel.

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