Molly McCloskey

Molly McCloskey ( born 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American author who has lived in Ireland since 1989.

Life

McCloskey is the daughter of the famous basketball coach Jack McCloskey and spent the first years of life in North Carolina, USA, where her father, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons trained. After her father in 1972 coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in Portland (Oregon ), the family moved to Oregon. Later she studied with the help of a sports scholarship at the Catholic Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

1989 moved to Ireland to McCloskey, where he married and settled in Sligo. In 1998, she returned to Philadelphia for some time, but then went to Dublin to do there at University College Dublin the Master of Philosophy. She still lives (2012 ) in Dublin.

Mc Closkey regularly writes reviews for The Irish Times and published articles for The Guardian, Elle (magazine) and The Dublin Review. 2009/2010 she was a guest lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, and taught in the Master of Philosophy degree program in Creative Writing professional. For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, she works in the Rapid Response Corps, which comes in conflict areas in emergency situations for use. She worked for example in Kosovo and Kenya at the base of the United Nations, who coordinated the aid to Somalia.

Publications

• Translated into German by Hans- Christian Oeser: How we live. Novel. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 3-86521-329-4.

• 2011: translated into German by Hans- Christian Oeser: love, stories, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86930-232-4.