Last updated: Catherine Ryan Howard by City Headshots Dublin
Catherine Ryan Howard, crime writer Published: Last updated:
Name and position: Catherine Ryan Howard, crime writer
Age: 36
Family: Parents John and Kathleen Howard, big sister to John and Claire
Pets: None
Favourite thing about Cork: Everyone knows everyone else…
Least favourite thing about Cork: …but that also means everyone knows everyone else’s business. You can’t get away with anything!
One thing you’d change about Cork: The traffic.
When you were small, what did you want to be as a grown-up?
I’ve always wanted to be a writer, although we did have minor digressions into NASA astronaut and, later, biosafety level four virologist. I blame the ‘80s kids’ movie ‘Space Camp’ and the book ‘The Hot Zone’ by Richard Preston for that.