Born in Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland, he studied at St. Columb's College, Derry, All Hallow's College, Dublin and The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Seamus served as a priest in Sacramento, CA. for eleven years before leaving, getting married, and beginning his practice as a psychotherapist in San Francisco.

Though Seamus has always had a passion for writing, it was in San Francisco that his creative writing efforts took off. Two of his plays were selected for workshop production by The American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. His plays attracted the legendary literary agent, Bertha Klausner who became his agent. It was at her urging he began work on his first novel and took courses in short story and screenplay writing at University of California, Berkeley.

He and his wife, Diane, now live in Southern California.

Bitter Oranges, a novel, tells the story of a young, bewildered Irish priest coming to California in the anything-goes 1960’s, and how he takes to this sexual liberation as a fish to water. Parallel with his ethical decline, however, runs his increasing advancement within the church bureaucracy. This creates a tragi-comical dilemma when faced with an unexpected promotion and subsequent repercussions. Written with an insider’s knowledge and perspective, the novel presents a compelling and insightful view of the secretive, yet very human, world of seminarians and priests.

The Woods, his second novel — published 2017 (available from Amazon, Apple, KOBO, B&N). It is the story of four educated sisters in the 1920’s who break all the rules of their upper-class social group. The novel takes a reader from the artists’ life of Montparnasse, to a scandalous liaison in an English seaside resort; from a communist revolt in a girls’ boarding school, to an IRA ambush of British troops. But there is a cost to all of this rebellion and it looms over each of the sisters at all times.