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Rachel Rooney

Agent:
Caroline Walsh
Film, TV and Stage Agent:
Georgie Smith
Translation Rights Contact:
Leo Gratton
EXTERNAL LINKs:
http://www.rachelrooneypoet.co.uk/

Rachel Rooney trained and worked as a teacher of Special Needs for many years before re-discovering her love of writing poetry.

Her first poetry collection The Language of Cat won the CLPE Poetry Award and was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Her second collection My Life as a Goldfish was shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2015. She visits schools for workshops, has performed her work at festivals and has been a judge for both the CLiPPA and the Betjeman Poetry Prize.

Rachel’s first picture book, Patch of Black, was published by Macmillan. She also writes texts for educational publishers.

 

FEATURED TITLE:
The Fears You Fear

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