E.L. Desmond

E.L. Desmond (1969- ) was born in London to Irish parents and grew up in Co. Cork, Ireland. She has lived in Switzerland, India, New Zealand and Denmark, and travelled extensively in Africa and Europe. She has had diverse occupations, including building and running a restaurant in New Zealand, running her own training company in Ireland and working in logistics for a large multinational in Switzerland and the UK.

She holds a doctorate in Sociology and has won awards for her short story and poetry writing. In 2008, her one act play, 'A Footprint of Roses', about WOZA, a women's civil movement in Zimbabwe, was featured on RTE Radio One's 'The Arts Show.' It was also produced at various venues throughout Europe and the United States, including the Kinsale Arts Festival in Cork and Mountjoy Women's Prison in Dublin. Her non-fiction book, Legitimation in a World at Risk, is the outcome of a year's PhD research in India.