Denyse Woods, who also writes as Denyse Devlin, is the author of six novels, including Of Sea and Sand (2018), Overnight to Innsbruck and The Catalpa Tree. She has been awarded Artists’ Bursaries by the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council, and writers’ residencies with the Shanghai Writers’ Association, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris and Zvona i Nari Liznjan in Croatia. In 2016, as the winner of the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Award, she was offered the extraordinary opportunity to spend two weeks writing in Ernest Hemingway’s studio in Key West. Denyse’s books have been translated into six languages. Denyse is the 2019 Writer-in-Residence for Cork County Council Library & Arts Service. Check out her website.