Clare McCotter

Clare McCotter’s haiku, tanka and haibun have been published in many parts of the world.  She won The British Haiku Award 2017, The British Tanka Award 2013 and The HIS Dóchas Ireland Haiku Award 2011 and 2010.  Her work has been included in the prestigious Norton anthology – Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years.  Her longer poems have appeared in over thirty journals including Abridged, Crannóg, Cyphers, Envoi, The Honest Ulsterman, Iota, The Interpreter’s House and The Stinging Fly. Awarded a Ph.D from the University of Ulster, she has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles on Belfast-born Beatrice Grimshaw’s travel writing and fiction.  Clare was one of three writers featured in Measuring New Writers 1 (Dedalus Press).  Black Horse Running, her first collection of haiku, tanka and haibun, was published in 2012 (Alba Publishing). Revenant is her first collection of longer poems.  She has worked as a lecturer, a teacher of English, a psychiatric nurse and a full-time carer.  Home is Kilrea, County Derry.