Academic Qualifications

Master of Poetry Studies, First Class Hons, DCU

Diploma in Library & Information Studies, 2.1, UCD

BA Mod Hons (French & English), First Class Hons with Distinction, TCD

CPD / Training in Facilitating, Writing and Editing

‘Insight into Indexing’ by Rachel Gee (AFEPI), 20 February 2023

‘Anton Chekhov’s Stories and Letters’ with Claire Keegan, January 2023

Working with Microsoft Teams, Fardus Soltan, Poetry Ireland / CBI, November 2021

Experiments in Prose, with Joanna Walsh, Irish Writers Centre, September 2021

Facilitation Skills for Writers, with Anne Tannam, Irish Writers Centre, March 2021

Autofiction, with Joanna Walsh, Maynooth University, March 2021

Child Safeguarding, with Theresa Barnett, Poetry Ireland, January 2021

Online Workshops with Children, Fardus Sultan, Poetry Ireland, January 2021

Writers in Schools Forum, Poetry Ireland, October 2020

Digital Events Training for Children’s Artists, Children’s Books Ireland, September 2020

Editing Your Novel: The Finishing Touches, with Brian Langan, Irish Writers Centre, September 2020

Sustaining a Flourishing Writing Practice, with Anne Tannam, Irish Writers Centre, April 2020

How to Lead a Workshop for Writers, with Lynn Buckle, Irish Writers Centre, July 2019

Advanced Copy-editing with Margaret Aherne, The Publishing Training Centre, April 2019

Writing and Editing for the Web, The Publishing Training Centre, November 2016

Certificate in Desktop Publishing, Griffith College, Dublin 8, 2016 (distinction)

Book Design, Publishing Ireland, 2015

Onscreen editing with Microsoft Word, 2014

Clé Grammar for Editors, 2007

In-house experience with The Lilliput Press, 1994-7

In-house training as an abstract writer for The H.W. Wilson Company, a leading reference publisher, 1993

Memberships:

• Hibernian Writers’ Group
• Irish Writers’ Centre. Professional member and on mentoring panel
• Pepperpot Haibun Group
• Children’s Books Ireland. I review for Inis and CBI’s Reading Guide, and was Poetry Section Editor the 2016 Reading Guide
• Irish Writers’ Union
• Association of Freelance Editors Proofreaders and Indexers (AFEPI). Full member since 1997.
• Irish PEN

Other

Trinity Guildhall Grade 4 in Music Theory, with distinction, 2010

City and Guilds Diploma in Creative Studies, 2007

City and Guilds Certificate in Creative Studies, 2005

Bord Fáilte Certification as a National Tour Guide, francophone, 1992