About Me
Multi-cultural background
Born in Germany to an Irish mother and an American father, I developed a fascination with languages from an early age. From transcribing telephone conversations to writing diaries, creating stories and poems and contributing to the school newspaper I could always be found meddling with words, in my two native tongues, German and English.
Writing successes - past and present
- At university, I was in the top five in a German language poetry competition.
- In industry, I wrote the winning entry for a call centre competition.
- I currently work as Editor of the advanced German language learning magazine Authentik auf Deutsch. I previously edited the intermediate magazine Katapult.
- Publications have included various editions of the German language learning magazines Katapult and Authentik, a number of short stories, and more recently, Flash Fiction.
- I am currently ghost-writing a memoir for an Irishman who spent many exciting years in Africa.
- I am also writing my first novel.
See also my author page on http://www.paragraphplanet.com/niamh-cooper-o'sullivan.htm.
Contact Me
I live in Co. Cork with my husband, my two daughters, a small menagerie and a drum kit.
Feel free to contact me any time: niamhcooperosullivan@gmail.com.
"There were days when Rosie would be playing on the chair next to me, and I would be sitting at the kitchen table with my head in my hands, a half-finished cup of tea long since gone cold..."; extract taken from One Sunday in May, published July 2009
