a Vision Painter,’ was published in January 2013. Her novels are set in the West of Ireland, in Galway and Connemara, and also in Kerala, India.
She has been writing creatively for 6 years, excluding her period in France where she wrote nothing creative, probably because she was running a restaurantbar despite having a background in Medicine (she is a qualified medical doctor) and IT (she has a Masters in IT) and absolutely no background in restaurants, apart from eating in them.
Her story ‘Helmets’ was shortlisted for the 2011 Over the Edge ‘New Writer of the Year Competition’ and she was the only entrant to have both her fiction and her poetry long-listed for the Doire Press ‘1st Annual International Fiction and Poetry Chapbook Competition’ in January 2012. Her fiction entry, ‘The Vision Painter,’ went on to be shortlisted for this competition and was the basis for her second novel, ‘Falling Colours - The Misadventures of a Vision Painter.’
Extract of FALLING COLOURS – The Misadventures of a Vision Painter
Book Description
Kiran is a vision painter. The only vision painter working in Ireland. Her practice isn’t doing too well and she works as a waitress in a struggling restaurant in Connemara. Everything changes when she meets a woman.