Helena Mulkerns is a writer, editor and photographer who worked as a freelance journalist In Paris and New York before spending nearly a decade working as a Press Officer for UN Peacekeeping Operations in Central America, Africa and Asia. She has been published in Hot Press, The Irish Times, Irish Tatler and others in Ireland, and The Irish Voice, The Irish Echo, Rolling Stone Magazine, Cinéaste, Entertainment Weekly and others in New York. Her last posting was in Kabul with the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan in 2007.

Since returning to Ireland, Helena started her own business, Airdnua, which provides writing, editing and website services based on her international experience and incorporating her design and photography skills. Airdnua's person-to-person Publish on Demand service will edit your poetry collection - or your company report. She also specialises in promotional materials and online profiles - signature websites for the professional, artist or small business. See www.airdnua.com

Helena's fiction writing has been shortlisted for the Hennessy / Sunday Tribune Literary Awards, America’s Pushcart Prize and Ireland’s Francis MacManus Short Story Award.  Last year, she received a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland to work on her first novel. She has published more than twenty short stories and essays and continues to write short fiction while completing her longer project. Once a month, you can find her coordinating and hosting the Wexford Arts Centre’s Cáca Milis Cabaret (also supported by the Arts Council of Ireland), for more details on which see here

Helena's second photographic exhibition Under An Afghan Sky will run during the Wexford Opera Festival at the Bride Street Festival Gallery in Wexford from 14-31 October. For more see here