Geraldine Moorkens Byrne

Geraldine Moorkens Byrne is a poet, novelist and educator from Ireland. She has been widely published as a poet - Dreams of Reality was her Kindle best selling poetry collection. She also writes detective fiction, with a love for modern Murder mysteries. Growing up reading Agatha Christie and other golden-era crime fiction sparked a love of great characters, twisty plots and satisfying endings. Geraldine lives in Dublin, Ireland with her husband, two boys and her greatest influence, her mother. Her work is set in Ireland, especially in her beloved Dublin. A lot of her work draws on Irish heritage and society, and in her spare time she teaches Irish mythology, folk lore, and folk magic. She studied in UCD, worked in Advertising and Publishing and finally returned to her family roots to run a famous music shop in Dublin. She retired in 2021 to devote herself full time to writing and teaching. Her poetry has been published in a variety of media, from Ezines to print anthologies and several have been performed as theatre. Her short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies and her story “A Stranger Among Friends,” was a winner in the Cunningham Short Story Competition, (Willowbrook Press) Her poetry collection Dreams of Reality is available on Kindle. Her detective novels The Body Politic and The Body Count (Caroline Jordan Mystery Series) are available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and Amazon.” She also has a very large and beautiful yarn collection She loves to hear from readers so feel free to reach out. You can find her on Twitter and Insta as @gercelt, and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/geraldinemoorkensbyrne Her website is http://www.celebratingwords.com author@celebratingwords.com Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3016469.Geraldine_Moorkens_Byrne