Margaret O’Brien co-founded The Story House Ireland (2014 – 2018) and formerly lectured in English and Creative Writing at Waterford Institute of Technology (now SETU). Her book, Weather Report: a 90-day journal for reflection and well-being, with the aid of the Beaufort Wind Scale was published in 2022. She is an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and is the Ireland editor for the US based literary magazine, Trasna. She curates the annual Brewery Lane Writers’ W/E and the monthly open mic, Poetry Plus, in Brewery Lane Theatre, Carrick-on-Suir and runs her own workshops, Writing Changes Lives, both in person and online.