Marsha O’Mahony is a writer, journalist and oral historian from Hereford. Her work includes River Voices an oral history of the river Wye; writing and researching a series of films about Herefordshire (funded by HLF). She has been a contributing researcher, writer and interviewer for Herefordshire Lore (Herefordshire oral history group) since 2005, and was a community correspondent for BBC Radio Wales for two years. She is also a playwright, with plays performed at Birmingham MAC and the Courtyard Theatre in Hereford. O’Mahony has also written for The Guardian, BBC Countryfile, Country Life, The Field, This England, Impress Magazine; her Scratch of the Hop social history of hop growing in the West Midlands was published in 2021. She has written for local and national news organisations, most recently for a New York-based lifestyle desk.