There was a parade the day that Tammy Moore was born. It had nothing to do with Ms Moore, being merely one of the peripatetic drum and flute bands that roam Ulster at that time of year, but she likes to mention it all the same.

Tammy attended Queen's University were, to the dismay of her career advisor, she took Ancient and Modern History. She was to return to Queen's University again and again over the course of the next few hours - like a criminal to the scene of the crime. She blames the gargoyles; not everyone is lucky enough to go to a university with real gargoyles.

After university she spent some time moving from job to job. For a while she worked in America at a hotel but events - a bulimic roommate who backed up the toilet and a drive-by near-shooting - all conspired to convince her that Northern Ireland was a much safer place to live.

Tammy returned home and started work in television production. Over the next five years she worked for UTV, BBC, RTE and Channel Four on programmes such as All Mixed Up, Christine's Children, Rwanda FC, The Battle With My Brain and George Best's Body.

In 2004 Tammy returned to Queen's University where she studied Creative Writing with Glenn Patterson and Daragh Carville at the world-renowned Seamus Heaney Centre. After graduation - pass with distinction, thank you very much - she went to work at the Creative Writers Network. (The call-centre inexplicably passed up on hiring her after she said she said they'd contribute money to her life and that no, she'd not be happy calling old people at home to sell them things.).

In 2006 Tammy won the Northern Woman Orange Short Story Award with her short story 'Island Life' - a cheery little story of incest, murder and death.

Since then Tammy has been an active member of the vibrant Belfast literary scene and been published in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including CWN magazine, Ulla's Nib, Northern Woman and Woman's News. She attended the 2007 Flatlake Festival - and most assuredly did not point at, heckle or ask whether Dylan Moran wanted any 'smores

Tammy published her first novel The Even in Sept 2008 with Morrigan Books. She is currently working on a sequel, Shadows Bloom.