E.R. Murray (Elizabeth Rose Murray) writes across multiple genres for adults, young adults, and children. Her novels include Caramel Hearts (Alma Books) and the award-winning Nine Lives Trilogy (Mercier Press). Her debut, The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 was chosen as the 2016 Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Citywide Read for Children, and The Book of Shadows – Nine Lives Trilogy 2 was shortlisted for the 2016 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards and an Irish Literary Association Award. Recent publications include a five-part Legends of the Land audio story series for SKODA, plus the following anthologies/journals; Women on Nature (ed. Katherine Norbury, UK), Reading the Future (ROI), Terrain (CA), Elysian: Creative Responses (ROI), Not Very Quiet (AUS), Here Comes Everyone (UK), Autonomy (ROI), Popshots (UK), Banshee (ROI), Ropes (ROI), Paper Lanterns (ROI), Channel Magazine (ROI) and Ponder Review (U.S.). Elizabeth lives in West Cork, Ireland.