Christine O'Brien was born in 1981 in County Wicklow, Ireland, and studied English and folklore at Trinity College Dublin. A former archivist with the National Botanic Gardens, she developed a fascination with Victorian horticulture and occult histories that later shaped her fiction. Her short work has appeared in Irish and UK literary magazines, and she has taught community workshops on ghost stories and place-based writing. O'Brien lives on the west coast of Ireland with her partner and an elderly greyhound.
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