Irene Waters

Irene Waters currently lives at Noosaville on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Being a Registered Nurse, she worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing her hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care.

A life-changing period on Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered she was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than herself, she took on the Barrington General Store. On the store’s sale she and her husband decided to retire and renovate a house with the help of a builder friend. Now, believing they knew everything about construction, they built their own house. When a coal mine became their next-door neighbour, they moved to Queensland.

Irene had been writing Nightmare in Paradise and with the desire to complete this, she enrolled in a Post Grad Certificate in Creative Industries which she completed in 2013. Following this, in 2016 she completed her Master of Arts by research in the field of memoir.

Irene Waters blogs on Reflections and Nightmares (photography and writing) and has had work published in Eavesdropping, an anthology, and also in a 2017 Flash Fiction Anthology put out by the Congress of Rough Writers. She has short works and essays published in the literary magazine Idiom23 in both 2013 and 2014 and a number of scholarly articles in text magazine.