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Clare McCotter (born May 25, 1963, Kilrea, County Derry, Northern Ireland), lecturer, teacher of English, mental health nurse, and full-time carer. Awarded a PhD from the University of Ulster, she has published numerous articles on Belfast-born Beatrice Grimshaw’s travel writing and fiction. McCotter was one of three new poets featured in Measuring: Dedalus New Writers 1 (2012). Black Horse Running, her first collection of haiku, tanka, and haibun, also appeared in 2012, while Vigils, a collection of haiku, tanka, haibun, and longer poems, is scheduled for publication in 2027. McCotter won First Prize (twice) as well as four Highly Commended awards in the Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competitions (2009–2011) and has won the British Haiku Society Award for tanka (2013), for haiku (2017), and for haibun (2022) as well as several Honourable Mentions in all three categories. Her work has been included in the Norton anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. She resides in Kilrea, Northern Ireland.
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