Hazel Gaynor

Hazel Gaynor is a historical fiction author from Ireland. She is also the author of “Carry on Writing,” a popular guest blog on wrting.ie, a national Irish writing website. She is also the author of feature author interviews for the website and has interviewed the likes of Mary Beth Keane, Phillipa Gregory, Daisy Waugh, Sebastian Faulks, and Cheryl Strayed. In October 2012, she won the Emerging Writers Cecil Day Lewis Award. Gaynor grew up in Yorkshire in England but spent much of her time in Fraisthorpe, Flamborough and Bridlington near the sea. After she was done with college, she spent some time working in professional services before venturing into authorship. Since 2001, she has been living with her husband in Kildare while she worked for A&L Goodbody. When she was made redundant form her day job, she decided to become an author and published “The Girl Who Came Home” in 2012.