Maryanne O'Hara is a writer with roots in New England and Ireland.

She is the author of the memoir Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light; the novel Cascade, a Massachusetts Book Award finalist; and the story collection Beyond the Border of Love, short-listed for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Her personal story of resilience and transformation in the face of loss has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, Psychology Today, People Magazine, and elsewhere.