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Rita Ann Higgins is an Irish poet, playwright, and novelist. She was born in Galway, Ireland in 1955. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Wild Dog Rose (1995), Tongulish (2000), and The Other Side of Longing (2005). She has also written several plays, including The Woman Who Lived in a Tree (1996) and The House of Splendid Isolation (1999). Rita Ann Higgins has won numerous awards for her work, including the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Poetry Prize, the Hennessy Literary Award, and the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. She has also been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. Rita Ann Higgins is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is also a member of Aosdána, an association of Irish artists. Rita Ann Higgins' net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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1987

Higgins was Galway County's Writer-in-Residence in 1987, Writer in Residence at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1994–95, Writer in Residence for Offaly County Council in 1998–99. She was Green Honors Professor at Texas Christian University, in October 2000. Other awards include a Peadar O'Donnell Award in 1989, several Arts Council bursaries 'Sunny Side Plucked' was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was made an honorary fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University November 2006.

1982

While confined, she began reading, and took to composing poems. She joined the Galway Writers' Workshop in 1982. Jessie Lendennie, editor of Salmon Publishing, encouraged Higgins and oversaw the publication of her first five collections.

1973

A native of Ballybrit, Galway, Higgins was one of thirteen children in a working-class household. She went to Briarhill National School, and Sisters of Mercy Convent, Galway. She married in 1973 but following the birth of her second child in 1977, contracted tuberculosis, forcing her to spend an extended period in a sanatorium.

1955

Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955) is an Irish poet and playwright.