[1] Haverty was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne and in 1992 won a scholarship to the European Film School at Ebeltoft in Denmark.
She was educated at Trinity College Dublin and The Sorbonne,[4] winning an under-21 short story competition at Listowel Writers Week.
Haverty is a frequent contributor to The Irish Times and has written for many publications including the TLS, The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Independent.
[citation needed] Her work has appeared in several anthologies and has been translated into languages including German, Spanish, Portuguese and Armenian.
She was a member of the Literature Express (2000), was a visiting professor at the Adam Mickievicz University in Poznan in 2005 and writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin (2007).