i write fiction

Learning to write professionally is a hundred times more difficult than it sounds. Mastering the craft of writing is just the tip of the iceberg. Being a professional writer requires figuring out how the entire idiosyncratic industry works: identifying which shelf in the bookstore your story occupies, pitching your work, finding the right agent, trusting them to find you the right publisher, collaborating with editors, surviving endless rewrites … all while staying true to the creative vision. It requires relentless resilience and a strange combination of unshakeable self-belief and the wholehearted willingness to be wrong about everything.

I write fiction under the name Aisling Orá.

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Aisling Orá is an Irish writer enamoured of all things 한류. After decades of globe-trotting she settled in rural Southwest Ireland. To everyone’s surprise, she doesn’t miss city life at all. (Except live music. And H Mart.) With a tin ear for languages, she’s equally woeful in Gaeilge and 한국어. She drives on dark, winding roads with the music turned up loud enough to startle the sheep.