Roisin Meaney was born in Listowel. In 2001 she took a career break from teaching and travelled to San Francisco to write her first novel, The Daisy Picker, which won the Tivoli ŒWrite a Bestseller¹ competition. To date she¹s written six adult novels and two children¹s books, and her writing has been translated into German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. Her latest adult novel, Love in the Making, will be published in the US in 2011. Roisin gave up her teaching job in 2008 to concentrate on fulltime writing. She currently lives in Limerick with two badly behaved cats, and in between running regular storytelling slots in her local library and hospital, and giving workshops in schools, she¹s working on her seventh novel.