Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, growing up between that city and rural Wexford. She now lives near Limerick, Ireland. Optic Verve is her seventh book, following The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides, Making Tents, Short Stories, Pitch, Idir Eatortha and Making Tents, & City West.

Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, growing up between that city and rural Wexford. She now lives near Limerick, Ireland. Optic Verve is her seventh book, following The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides, Making Tents, Short Stories, Pitch, Idir Eatortha and Making Tents, & City West.