Siobhán Parkinson is a novelist and one of Ireland's best-known writers for children. She has about twenty books in print, a bagful of awards and nominations, and her books have been translated into about twenty languages. Like most writers, Siobhán has a finger in quite a few literary pies. She teaches creative writing (as they insist on calling it, awful phrase), she translates from German, she goes to conferences and harangues people, she edits all kinds of things (magazines, books, it depends...), she visits schools and works with children on their writing projects. She is visually impaired, which means she has to rely mainly on audiobooks for reading, and she works by using magnification software and a voice on her computer. She lives in Dublin with her husband, who is a woodturner and without her grown-up son, who is a student.