Irene Walshe has been writing since she was very young and lived in Venezuela for most of her adult life, collaborating on articles for local newspapers. In 1993 she helped organiz...view moreIrene Walshe has been writing since she was very young and lived in Venezuela for most of her adult life, collaborating on articles for local newspapers. In 1993 she helped organize the First National Literary Assembly Mercedes Bermúdez de Belloso. Her first children’s poetry book, Para Cantar y Jugar, was published in 1999 by the local government and distributed in public schools in her hometown, and she has written several other children’s books since then.view less