Belfast born, Manchester raised and now a ‘stop-over’ on the Isle of Man, Máire is a teacher with a love of folklore, history and the Manx countryside. She began writing the occasional poem about a decade ago but since discovering Write Club online at the start of the first lockdown has found a whole, new world of poetry, experimenting with form and subject matter. She has had work published in a number of anthologies and also writes for and performs with a local heritage group at various Manx historical sites.