Estelle Birdy
Estelle Birdy was born in London and spent most of her childhood in Dundalk, Co Louth. She fell in love with Dublin's Liberties when she moved there at the age of nineteen. She is a graduate of UCD's Masters in Creative Writing and has won or been shortlisted for the Dalkey Creates, Penfro Book Festival, Verve Poetry Festival and IWC Novel Fair competitions. The cornerstone of Birdy's writing is the epic nature of the stories of the ordinary and often marginalised people around her. Short...
