Noelle McCarthy is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. "Buck Rabbit", her first foray into non-fiction, won the Short Memoir section of the Fish Publishing International Writing competition in 2020. Since 2017, she and her husband John Daniell have been making critically acclaimed podcasts as Bird of Paradise Productions. She has written columns, reviews, first-person essays and features for a wide range of media in New Zealand including Metro, The NZ Herald and Newsroom. In Ireland, she's provided commentary for radio and written for The Irish Times, The Independent and The Irish Examiner. With nearly twenty years' experience in radio, she is a go-to host at writer's festivals and has interviewed some of the world's most famous and well-respected storytellers, from Eleanor Catton to Marlon James, Margaret Atwood and James Cameron. She lives in the New Zealand countryside with her husband and their daughter, and she misses Irish chocolate.