Bea Mahood was born and educated in Northern Ireland. She has been an inveterate traveler, living in places as diverse as Canada, Puerto Rico, Paris, Chicago, Brussels, and Connecticut, before retiring to North Carolina. In 2002 her work was published in the special Irish issue of Natural Bridge.
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