Louise G Cole writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry, and has been published, and won or been shortlisted, in various literary competitions. She was nominated for Hennessy Literary Awards in 2015 and 2018, and has won the Strokestown Poetry Festival Roscommon Poets' Prize, the Hanna Greally Literary Award, the HE Bates Short Story Competition, and the I Am Dublin Flash Fiction competition, amongst others. Originally from Worcestershire in England (home of Worcester Sauce and Elgar), she now lives in County Roscommon in the west of Ireland (home of Atlantic gales and rain).