Zara O'Connor is an Irish-born writer from Limerick whose work traces the charged borderlands between crime, technology, and the sea in fiction, nonfiction, memoir, romance, and graphic narrative. Based between Dublin and Key West, she crews on a friend's sloop out of Stock Island and brings the precision of a former court reporter and night-shift copy editor to everything she makes.
Drawing on criminology at University College Cork and later consulting for a Miami cybersecurity firm, O'Connor explores how digital footprints intersect with tide tables, patrol routes, and human incentives. Her books include the narrative nonfiction Sextant: A Chronicle (2024), the memoirs The Almanac (2025) and The Golden Mountain (2025, shortlisted for a Munster arts award), the coastal procedural romance Something About Mercury (2025), and the graphic novel A Primer on Forgetting (2026). She experiments with hybrid pages that layer nautical charts, code diagrams, and marginal transcripts, and lives between the Grand Canal and the Gulf Stream with a rescue terrier named Clove.
