Born to Irish parents living in England, early years on my grandmother's farm in the West of Ireland watching Nature take its course; college in Dublin, and after five years teaching English and Spanish at a boarding school wanderlust kicked in; have travelled everywhere but South America but hope one day to visit Peru and Brazil to see Machu Picchu and take a boat on the Amazon. A decade in the Middle East(Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq) left indelible images and memories, many of them captured in We're All Men Here. Finally settled in Singapore, a citizen now, and writing every day.

Accomplishments: The usual university degrees and diplomas and a few grants and scholarships along the way, and a few poetry prizes.

On Lulu, published We're All Men Here, an account of expat days in the Middle East, and have just launched Shadows of Substance, a novel set in Ireland and England dealing with family relationships and conflicts: deception, abuse, neglect, male chauvinism, episodes of 'domestic terrorism'