Eileen O’Hely

Eileen O’Hely was been a story teller from a young age. At primary school she took every opportunity to put on plays with her friends, and on weekends she’d have her dolls and teddy bears act out stories she’d made up.

After dabbling as an astrophysicist, Eileen put pen to paper (literally – she writes all her first drafts longhand) and experimented with junior fiction. Her first children’s book won the Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Honour Award, and other works have been shortlisted for various awards in Australia, and been included in the Premier’s Reading Challenge.