Critically acclaimed Irish Author who has lived in the Big Easy for two decades I'm originally from Northern Ireland. I've written two books, one for the biggest publisher in the South and the other commissioned by a New York publisher. Both were critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and I won a Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival writers’ award. I've taught fiction-writing courses in New Orleans for more than a decade. Eight of my students have gone on to become published authors.