Sheila Killian is an award-winning author and teacher.  Her short stories have been variously long-listed and short-listed in competitions in Ireland and the UK including the Seán O’Faoláin, Fish, Bedford and From the Well competitions and her poetry has been published in The Shop, Microphone On, The Ogham Stone and Aerial Anthology. She has had creative non-fiction broadcast on RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, and published in the national press.

As well as her novel, Something Bigger, she has published two non-fiction books on the topic of business sustainability and a wide range of peer-reviewed research articles.

She is a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre, and a member of Irish Pen, the Irish Writers Union, the Writepace writers’ collective in Limerick, and Achill Writers’ Group. She lives in Limerick and spends as much time as she can by the sea.