Le cois abhainn an Chláidí, faoi scáth na hEaragla i dTír Chonaill atá cónaí ar Mháire Dinny Wren, áit a mbíonn sí ag scríobh filíochta agus gearrscéalta. Phill sí chun an bhaile go Gaoth Dobhair in 1999 i ndiaidh di tréimhse de 21 bliain a chaitheamh i Londain. D’fhoilsigh Éabhlóid a chéad chnuasach gearrscéalta, Go mbeinnse choíche saor, in 2016 agus tá saothair léi foilsithe in irisí ar nós Comhar, Duillí Éireann, Feasta, An tUltach, Poblachd nam Bàrd, agus Poetry Ireland Review. Tá ceithre scéal dá cuid sa chnuasach gearrscéalta Go dtí an lá bán a d’fhoilsigh Éabhlóid in 2012. Bronnadh duais Fhoras na Gaeilge ar Mháire in 2010 ag Féile Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail don ghearrscéal Ag Téarnamh chun Baile. Bhí scannán filíochta bunaigh ar dhán dá cuid ar an ghearrliosta ag Féile filíochta Winter Warmer Ó Bhéal 2020.

In 2013 rinne Drama on One léiriúchán den scéal Thar an Tairseach agus craoladh é ar RTÉ Raidió 1 ar Lá Fhéile Pádraig na bliana sin. Bhí an léiriúchán sin ar an ghearrliosta don Dráma Raidió is Fearr ag an Prix Europa i mBeirlín in 2013.

 

Máire Dinny Wren lives in her native home of Gaoth Dobhair in county Donegal where she writes poetry and short fiction. Prior to returning home in 1999, Máire lived in London for twenty-one years, where she was a member of the Green Ink Writers group.Máire has received numerous awards for her stories, including Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge at The Listowel Writers’ week in 2010 for Ag Téarnamh chun Baile. A radio adaption of the story Thar an Tairseach was broadcast by Drama on One, RTÉ Radio One and was shortlisted for the Prix Europa 2013 award in Berlin for best radio drama. Máire has published two collections of poems. The first, Ó Bhile go Bile, was published by Coiscéim in 2011. Her second poetry collection, Tine Ghealáin, published by Éabhlóid in 2019 was shortlisted for the Oireachtas na Gaeilge, Gradam Uí Shuilleabháin Award 2020.

Her poems and short stories have been broadcast on RTÉ One, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Raidió Fáilte and BBC Radio Ulster and have been published in publications such as Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Pages, Comhar, an tUltach, Feasta and the Winners’ Anthology 2010 of the Listowel Writers’ Week.