Author : Celeste Augé

Celeste Augé is the author of The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and the short story collection Fireproof and Other Stories (Doire Press, 2012), which was longlisted for the 2013 Frank O’Connor Award. Her poetry has been shortlisted for a Hennessy Award, and she has received a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2011, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for fiction. Celeste lives in Connemara, in the West of Ireland, and teaches creative writing to undergraduates at NUI Galway as well as in a community setting.