Patricia Craig (writer)


Patricia Craig is a writer, anthologist and literary critic from Northern Ireland, living in Antrim, County Antrim.

Personal life

She was born in Belfast to Nora and Andy Craig and attended St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls before studying at the Belfast College of Art and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London. She returned to Northern Ireland in 1999. She is married to the Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan.

Career

She has written memoirs, edited several anthologies and written articles for newspapers. In London she began to collaborate with Mary Cadogan, editing several books on children’s literature. Their first book, You’re a Brick Angela!, became a classic.
On her return to Northern Ireland she began to write books with an Irish theme. One of the first was a biography of Brian Moore which was described by the critic Seamus Deane as 'a crisp and intelligent account of a man and a writer for whom Craig's clean and incisive approach seems perfectly appropriate'. Perhaps her most popular book was the memoir Asking for Trouble which details her schooldays, culminating in her expulsion from school.

Awards

She was Honorary Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast where she was appointed to the Board of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.

Publications