Mar 07, 2016
Dipping the Pen Nib Into Tragedy
“It meant not constantly trying to get readers to feel pity for my characters, which was what I’d been doing for way too long.”
Belinda McKeon
Belinda McKeon’s debut novel Solace won the 2011 Faber Prize and was voted Irish Book of the Year. Her second novel, Tender, was published by Lee Boudreaux Books in February 2016. Her essays and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Guardian, A Public Space and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.
