Brenna Briggs is the author of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mystery series. Her humorous essays have been published in Irish American newspapers and periodicals as well as in Ireland and Canada. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, into two third generation Irish American families where for many years, she thought that sugar cookies with green icing on Saint Patrick's Day was the best thing about being Irish. After attending St. Mary's College-Notre Dame and Indiana University, she became an actress, documentary film producer, political activist, wife, mother, legal assistant and eventu...