Career
She is the sister of Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Irish group When started out as "Pogue Mahone" in the early 1980s, MacGowan designed posters and flyers to advertise their gigs. She also worked for in 1988, editing and writing their fanzine, "Ordnahone". MacGowan worked at the Kent & Sussex Courier (Associated Press) as a journalist and a copywriter for their advertising pages.
She freelanced in journalism for various London and Kent based advertising agencies, writing articles for Smash Hits, Record Mirror, and FSM Monthly.
She also worked for the Phillip Hall Press Agency in London in the 1980s. In 1994, she moved to County Tipperary (Ireland) and worked for the Tipperary NR Council Arts Office.
She has worked as a freelance journalist, writing for The Irish Times, The Sunday Times, the Irish Mirror and Mizz Magazine. She has also undertaken art commissions, Celtic/funky art, under the name of "Cat MacZebedee".
Her story for children, Etain"s Dream, was serialised in the Nenagh Guardian December 2007-May 2008.
She is currently working on her first novel, "A Mortal Word.".
