During her seven-year spell in New York, Siobhan was named one of the "top 100 Irish-Americans" by Irish-America Magazine and AerLingus, for her global anti-censorship work. Her work here included founding and leading the Rushdie Defense Committee USA and traveling to Indonesia and Guatemala to investigate local human rights conditions for writers. She went on to be Program Director of PEN American Center's Freedom-to-Write Committee in New York City. After a short stint in publishing, she joined the writer's organization PEN, initially as a researcher for its Writers in Prison Committee. She attended a Catholic grammar school in south London and then gained a degree in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She spent much of her youth visiting the family cottage in Aglish, County Waterford and later the family home in Wicklow Town. Siobhan Dowd was born to Irish parents and brought up in London.
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