Eileen O’Hely was born in Melbourne and currently lives in Brisbane with her husband and young family. She has worked as an English teacher in Germany, an IT specialist for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy and as a web writer and sports reporter in England, writing as much fiction as her hectic sight-seeing schedule would allow. Her first novel won the 2006 Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Honour Award. Kitten Kaboodle and the Catier Emerald is her first Walker title.