Rita Ann Higgins was born in Galway and divides her time between Galway and Spiddal. Her first five poetry collections were published by Salmon Publishing: Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986); Witch in the Bushes (1988); Goddess and Witch (1990); Philomena’s Revenge (1992); Higher Purchase (1996). Bloodaxe Books published her next three collections: Sunny Side Plucked (1996); An Awful Racket (2001); Throw in the Vowels New & Selected Poems (2005). Her plays include: Face Licker Come Home (1991), God of the Hatch Man (1992), Colie Lally Doesn’t Live in a Bucket (1993) and Down All the Roundabouts (1999).