Martina Evans was born in 1961 in Cork, the youngest of ten children. She moved to London in 1988. As well as four books of poetry - 'The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest' (1995), 'All Alcoholics Are Charmers' (1998), 'Can Dentists Be Trusted?' (2004) and 'Facing the Public' (2009) - she has also published three novels: 'Midnight Feast' (1996), 'The Glass Mountain' (1997) and 'No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors' (2000).