Pauline O'Hare

Pauline O’Hare was born and grew up in Northern Ireland and was educated at Queen's University Belfast. Her short stories have been published in newspapers and magazines, both in Ireland and England. Winner of the Toowrite Short Story competition in 2005 and runner-up in 2003 and 2004; short-listed for the Brian Moore Short Story in 2008; winner of Ireland's Own Open Short Story in 2009 and was runner up in 2010, she was one of three writers whose short stories earned them the accolade of Emergent Writers of North County Dublin, in a competition organised by Fingal County Council, and judged by John Banville, in May 2010.

She teaches French and English, plays clarinet in a brass and reed band and is a local historian and genealogist. She has written the history of a private hospital in Dublin, entitled In the Company of Friends.

Married with five adult children, she lives, with her husband, in Couny Dublin.

The Seagull Theory of Waves is her first novel. She is currently working on her second.