Caroline Finnerty
Originally from Celbridge in Co. Kildare Caroline now live a few miles down the road with her husband, daughter, baby twins and our dog. Having always been a bit bookish, she started writing in her mid-twenties and attended a local creative writing course facilitated by Mae Leonard. The course spurred her on and in 2010 she was short-listed for the Penguin Ireland/RTE Guide Short Story Competition. She then had the idea for ‘In a Moment’ after she became a mum for the first time. She wrote the story at weekends or in the evenings when her daughter was sleeping and sent it off to Poolbeg. It was a dream come true when ‘In a Moment’ was released in 2012 and her second book ‘The Last Goodbye’ was published in July 2013. She also compiled a non-fiction collection featuring some of Ireland’s best loved authors, journalists and TV personalities as they recall their childhood entitled ‘If I Was A Child Again’ which was published in November 2013 with all royalties donated to Barnardos. Source: Commons
