Contributor bio
Orna Ross is an Irish novelist and poet and founder of the non-profit Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). Her twin-book After the Rising & Before the Fall won the Goethe Grand Prize for Historical Fiction and she was named one of the Top 100 People in Publishing by The Bookseller for her work with ALLi. Her next novel, A Life Before, about the English heiress turned Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne and the poet she inspired, W.B. Yeats, is serializing now on her Substack.
Born and raised in Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland, Orna now lives in St Leonard's on Sea, in the southeast of England.
