As of 2011, she was commissioning editor and publisher with Little Island, an imprint of New Island Books. She is a former co-editor of "Bookbird", the magazine of international children's literature organisation IBBY, and former editor of "Inis", published by Children's Books Ireland (CBI). She also teaches creative writing at Marino Institute of Education, and has held numerous Writers-in-Schools short-term residencies, with a particular emphasis on working with children with special needs. She has been writer in residence to Dublin City and the Irish Writers' Centre, to Waterford City, and the Church of Ireland College of Education; she is a former board member of CBI and was on the CBI working group to renovate the Bisto Book of the Year awards.