Maeve Crannell (born 1986) grew up on the Cork coast, where foghorns and tide tables were her first almanacs. She studied folklore and medieval literature at University College Cork and later worked as a cataloguer for a small maritime museum in Kinsale, handling worm-eaten charts and salt-stiff logbooks. Her short fiction has appeared in regional journals and won several emerging-writer prizes in Ireland and Scotland. After a stint teaching adult-education courses on myth and material culture, she settled in Edinburgh, where she volunteers with a community garden and collects field recordings of birds at dawn. She lives with her partner and an elderly greyhound named Nettle.
