Phil Carrick was born and raised in Ireland in the 1950s. She was educated at both UCD and Trinity College Dublin and spent a full career in education. Since raising her family of three and retiring early in 2015, Phil has married for the second time and embraced her life-long ambition to publish her writing. Currently, she is working on a book of short stories and a novel. Phil enjoys writing poetry and fiction and is a member of the Rathmines Writer Workshop, Dublin, Ireland. Publications Mining Memories, Writing.ie, 2025, My Local Park 2022, The Cardboard Box 2022, The Drownings Mining Memories is about living history and helps build the National Folklore Collection to reflect the lives of Irish people. The Galway Review, 2025, The Christmas Tree 2024, The Haunting of Dinsmortan House 2022, The Bicycle Shed Backseat Passenger 2021, A Woman in Need 2020, The Night Visitor Irelands Own, 2006, The First Communion Lie In the Poetry Collection “2020 Visions” published by Dublin’s Ballymun Library writing group, Phil contributed three poems: Buried Crime Our Sky is Heavens Eye Notre Dame De Paris Fish Publications, Cork, long listed a memoir in 2019 and a short story in 2020.