Denyse Woods

Denyse Woods (1958–) is an Irish writer.

Life

Born in Boston in 1958, daughter to Gerard Woods an Irish Ambassador, though at the time Irish Consul-General in Boston and his wife Finola Devlin. He was Ambassador to Australia, Belgium and the Holy See. Her uncle was the poet and diplomat, Denis Devlin. Her mother died while her father was posted to Rome and Woods was sent to a boarding school in Ireland. After school Woods initially did a secretarial course and a later job lead to her deciding to study Arabic and English at University College, Dublin. Her father died 5 years after her mother. Woods was left with 2 older siblings, brother Henry and sister Anne. Both with her family growing up and later after college Woods travelled extensively before finally moving to live in Cork with her husband and their two daughters. In Cork she was the director for the West Cork Literary Festival for four years.^[1] She has also been the resident tutor for the Country House Writers' Weekend^[2] and writer-in-residence with Cork County Library.^[3] She won the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest in 2016.^[4]She has also won The Irish Times short story award.^[5][6][7][8]

Woods also writes under the name Denyse Devlin.

Bibliography

• Overnight to Innsbruck (Lilliput Press, 2002)
• The Catalpa Tree (Penguin Ireland, 2004)
• Like Nowhere Else (Penguin Ireland, 2005)
• Hopscotch (Penguin Ireland, 2006)
• If Not Now (Penguin Ireland, 2008)
• Of Sea and Sand (2018)

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