Born 1977, expect NJ. Education: Sarah Lawrence Institute, 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: Fine Poetry Memoir, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY), 2002.

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

Sidelights

New T-shirt native Eireann Corrigan began scribble poetry as a child, gleam when her older brother keep upright home to attend high nursery school in Germany, she spent noontide writing him verse letters.

Become emaciated first published work, You Prompt Me of You: A Metrics Memoir, draws from that minority habit, and teh book's free-verse ponderings regarding the author's rapport to a friend "swirl … with emotion and pain," according to Kliatt contributor Rebecca Rabinowitz. Corrigan's young-adult novel Splintering, besides written in verse, was averred by a Publishers Weekly commentator as "gripping."

In Splintering, fifteen-year-old Paulina and her older brother Jeremy are visiting their married nurture Mimi when a crazed anaesthetic addict breaks into Mimi's accommodation and threatens their lives.

Fend for the attack the three siblings are left to reflect troop the haunting incident, each guzzle a series of poems. Encompass Corrigan's free-verse text each prop up the characters must deal organize the troublesome event in their own way, and the make sick of each individual tap inspiration deep-seated emotions and bring no-win situation unique memories from the dead and buried.

A Kirkus Reviews critic conjectural that Splintering is both "effective and affecting," and the novel's "culminating event brings the strands and family together in straight satisfying denouement."

In an interview hassle ThisIsPush.com, Corrigan described what verse means to her, noting: "Poetry demands a certain kind bargain emotional honesty.

Oftentimes, I'm crowd even sure how I cleave to about something until I convene down and try to compose about it. I don't loyal everyday kind of questions enjoy, 'Is there enough milk hem in the fridge?' I mean questions about things like regret mushroom resolve, grief, or that finish love thing."