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Belfast-born Sheena Wilkinson teaches English at Methodist College, Belfast. Her book Friends in the Fourth, based on her doctoral research into the ‘crossover’ genre of the girls’ school story, was published by Bettany Press in 2007.
Her real love, however, is fiction. Her first short story, Amputees, won the Brian Moore Award in 2006, and was followed by Dissociation, which won second prize in the same contest in 2009. Holding On was a runner-up in the Sean O’Faolain Contest 2009, and Local Pride won first prize in the Writers’ Bureau Short Story Award 2009. Sheena has recently graduated with distinction in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast, and her first novel for young adults, Taking Flight, will be published in autumn 2010 by Little Island (an imprint of New Island Books).