Grace Tierney lives and writes in Ireland.

She enjoys gluttony, reading, gardening, travel, crafts, and walking. When not writing or surveying for the ESRI, she can usually be found chasing her book-obsessed pre-schoolers Daniel and Eleanor. They prefer red pencils above all others - she fears she may be rearing editors.

Grace’s Published Work (see her clips)

Her non-fiction has been published in Ireland, the UK, America, and Australia. She reviews books for many venues. Her passion for food fuels restaurant reviews for print and online media. More than fifteen years of experience gardening provides tips for the Queenswood Garden newsletter and BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, and a prize-winning feature for Dig-It. 

Grace has published two books for writers 'Positive Thoughts for Writers' (2006) and 'Writing Contest Expert's Guide to Fiction Contests' (2007) with Lulu. She bases her series of contest guides on her long-running column on the topic at 'Writer Online' for more than 22,000 readers worldwide. She also enjoys crafting writing features for 'Funds for Writers', 'Food-Writing', 'Vision', and 'Absolute Write' and spoke at the Aghamore Literary Festival in 2007.

The Craft of Writing

Grace's fiction won the humourous literature prize MurrayTheChicken, was runner up in the Booger Prize for flash humour writing, was published by StoryHouse coffee cans, 'The People's Friend' the UK story magazine, and 'E2K'. She has contributed creative fiction to 'Traffic Life', 'They Lied, True Tales of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding',  'Simple Pleasures of the Kitchen', 'Bylines 2007', and 'Remembering the Future' anthologies.

Grace’s writing is grounded in experience and research. Her extensive use of the web since 1993 and her academic knowledge of its underlying technology has contributed to her informal title of "web-queen". If you need to find an obscure Web site, she’s your gal.

Since 2002 she has regularly delivered on tight deadlines for editors based in Canada, USA, and Ireland via e-mail. Trevor White (publisher, ‘The Dubliner’) described her work as "terrific" and readers enthuse that her fiction is full of "understated humour, but very vibrant and sharp". She hopes to surpass those descriptions this year. She brings a professional yet friendly and enthusiastic approach to her work and welcomes constructive feedback. Grace is an active member of CritiqueCircle and World Romance Writers. Past writing work has included her monthly column about writing contests for 'Writer Online’, weekly reviews of Web sites for ‘Netsurfer Digest’, and monthly reviews of non-fiction books for 'The Good Book Guide'. She currently writes a local 'good news' column for 'The Meath Coaster' (circ. 6,000).

Grace studied creative writing with Sue Townsend (best-selling author of ‘The Diary of Adrian Mole’) in Skyros, Greece in 2001 and novel writing with Alison Dye at the Irish Writers Centre in 2003. Her writing influences are wildly varied and include Charles Dickens, Roddy Doyle, John Irving, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Brookmyre, and Diana Gabaldon for the quality of their writing, their outstanding use of humour, and their love of words.

Additional clips and editorial references are available upon request.

Contact Grace

Read more about Grace at Writer Net and 18 Questions.

All photography and text on these pages, except when otherwise indicated, are copyright Grace Tierney, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008