Helen Cusack O’Keeffe is a writer and social worker based primarily in Paris since 2009. Publications can be found in the Bastille, Tightrope Press (Canada), Stoneskin Press (London), and Le Farming Times. Plays include Holey Tuscany, an absurdist maritime tragedy,  Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros, a bilingual Surrealist extravaganza, and The Terrible Mystery of Ophelia Dupont-Cassé co-authored with poetic genius Vincent Chabany.  She was an editor for Paris Lit Up magazine for issues 1-12. As a seasoned expert medico-legal witness, over the past 19 months she has interviewed many Palestinian families affected by the ongoing genocide.