Orna Ross wants you to go creative

Orna Ross was born Áine McCarthy in Waterford in the south-east of Ireland. She survived a convent-school Irish childhood by taking refuge in books, poems, and dreams of becoming a writer. In 1989 she published her first book with Attic Press, and in 2011 she took her rights back from her fiction publishers, Penguin, to go it alone. It's been 'the best move of my writing life,' she says, and ever since she's been publishing her own way. And speaking up for the joys of creative freedom not just in  literature but in life.

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BIO: Orna Ross is a novelist, poet and creative advocate. An international bestseller, whose books sell in over 100 countries, her writing awards include the Goethe Grand Prize for Historical Fiction and the Gold Literary Titan award for poetry,. As founder of ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, she was named one of the "Top 100 People in Publishing" (The Bookseller). 

Raised in Wexford, in the south-east corner of Ireland, she now lives in St Leonard's on Sea, near historical Hastings, in the south-east corner of England. 

Browse and buy her books right here: OrnaRoss.com/Books