 Her first novel, "The Light-Makers", was a best-seller and won the Sunday Tribune's Best New Irish Novel for 1992.She has written and published four novels, including "The Elysium Testament" and "Where They Lie", seven collections of poetry (including "Those April Fevers" Arc UK 2015), two volumes of short stories and radio broadcasts and won several awards for her writing in both fiction and poetry.In 2007 she was writer-in-residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.