Mary Keating has just published her first novel, The Chanticleer Girls. She first saw the island of Nantucket when she was fifteen years old. She loves Nantucket and continues to return for visits. Mary has written several screenplays: Holy Ecstasy; Beach Rose Jam; The Summer House; Ida Tarbell; and an adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel, Sula. When her father died she wrote and self-published a short memoir, Into My Father's Room. She currently lives in northwestern Pennsylvania while enjoying dual Irish citizenship.