Bayveen O'Connell, originally from Sligo, is a Dublin-based writer whose fiction and creative nonfiction pieces have been published online and in anthologies since 2017. 

So far this year she's won 3rd prize in the Janus Literary Spring Story Anthology Competition 2021 and been a winner of the Fractured Lit 100 word story Mini Contest 2021.

In 2020, she was published in the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology.

Established in 2018, Bayveen's facilitated regular Writing Workshops in Dromahair, Leitrim, which she has continued giving over Zoom during the pandemic.