Aoibheann Sweeney
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Lambda Literary Award |
Aoibheann Sweeney (born 1969) is an American author.
Biography
She was raised in Massachusetts and attended Harvard University and the University of Virginia's MFA Program, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow.
Her first novel,
In a lengthy review in The Washington Post, Ron Charles wrote about the way the book “taps into older, sometimes ancient stories...There’s real wisdom in these classic myths and there’s real talent in this sensitive novel.”[1]
Sweeney has written for the
In 2011, she gave birth to a child in a taxi cab in the middle of the day in Times Square in New York City. The event was widely covered in international media, with the mother's name spelled phonetically as "Even Sweeney." [2] Her partner is listed as "mother" in the "attending physician" section of the child's birth certificate. The two mothers now live in Ireland.
References
- ^ Charles, Ron (July 29, 2007). "Island in the Storm (Washington Post book review)". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ^ Wright, Cynthia S. (April 29, 2011). "Lesbian Moms Deliver Baby in NYC Cab". Lez Get Real. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
External links
- Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking in The New York Times Sunday Book Review
- Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking at the Penguin Press Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
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