Denyse Woods

Denyse Woods, who also writes as Denyse Devlin, is an Irish writer based in Cork. She is the author of six novels, including the critically-acclaimed Overnight to Innsbruck and Of Sea and Sand, and The Catalpa Tree, a bestseller in Ireland and the UK. Denyse had a peripatetic childhood, as she followed her parents to various postings, and this has strongly influenced her work. Often described as travel fiction, her novels take you off around the world - from the Omani desert to Australia's Coral Sea and a few places in between. She has been awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary and residencies in Shanghai, Liznjan, and Paris.

In 2016, as winner of the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Award, Denyse was offered the extraordinary opportunity to spend two weeks working in Ernest Hemingway’s studio in Key West - the first author to do so since Hemingway himself.

Loves trees, tea and trains.

“An Irish writer who knows the world.” (Irish Times)