Dazzling Debuts: Andrew Cunning and Ruth McKee in Conversation with Jan Carson 

Venue: Marketplace Theatre, Armagh
Tickets| £12.00 book HERE

Andrew Cunning was born on the North coast of Ireland and now lives in North Belfast. He has a PhD in Literature and Theology and has taught at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Limerick and Trinity College Dublin. In 2017 Andrew travelled to Iowa City to meet and interview the American novelist Marilynne Robinson, the subject of his PhD thesis. In 2021 he published Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary with Bloomsbury. Inspired by the experience of meeting his literary hero, Clara and Christina is his first novel. 

'An absolute delight, full of warmth and human surprise' Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake 

Ruth McKee is based in Skerries, Co. Dublin. Her short fiction has been selected for New Irish Writing and twice shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Awards. She is Editor of Books Ireland, The Irish Writers Handbook, and the host of the Burning Books podcast. She has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award in 2024, 2022 & 2021. 

'Wild Iris is a devastating and brilliant novel. It's incisive, unflinching, witty and wistful – and so full of love, language, and beauty that to read it is to be swept along in a fast flowing current.' Gill Perdue