About the Author
A (proud) and naturalized citizen of the U.S., I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, lived in Wicklow, Donegal, Bangor (just outside Belfast), both sides of the divide, so to speak. Like many Irish, my life was profoundly affected by the long and terrible conflict that ripped my country apart for so many years.
I wrote my first novel when I was nine about a shipwreck, children on a desert island, cannibals, rescue. It was well received by my fellow students and teachers in the Dublin boarding school I was attending. I knew then I would one day be a writer. Immigration to America, a marriage, and four children put that on the back burner. Recently, I left special education to write full time.
I have had articles published in the Massachusetts Teachers Association Magazine, poems and short stories in literary magazines: Premiere I and Premiere II, a short story, The Day My Mother Died , in the National Writers’ Project Anthology. My poem, The Shell , won the Ocean Poetry contest at thenextbigwriter.com.
My novel, The Bogs of Ireland, is a work in progress, with the invaluable assistance of Boston poet, Tom Daly. Follow up books two and three are complete in first draft. I am also working on a series of short memoir pieces.