Martina Evans is an Irish poet and novelist living in London. The youngest of ten children, she grew up in a small village in County Cork in a pub, shop and petrol station. She is the author of three published novels, the first novel Midnight Feast (Sinclair-Stevenson 1996) which won a Betty Trask Award, The Glass Mountain (Sinclair-Stevenson 1997) and No Drinking, No Doctors, No Dancing (Bloomsbury 2000) which won an Arts Council of England Award .She also the author of four collections of poetry, including Facing the Public 2009 which was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2009 and won the Piero Ciampi International Poetry Prize in 2011. Her latest book , Petrol was published by Anvil Press in 2012.
