Jeff Klooger’s poetry has been published in Australian and international online and print journals, most recently The Liberal, Harvest, dotdotdash and The Argotist Online. His other interests are music and philosophy. His book on the ideas of the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis was published in 2009.

Jeff Young is a Liverpool-based dramatist with over 70 theatre TV and radio credits. He broadcasts essays for BBC Radio 3, and makes site specific theatre and audio installations in collaboration with musicians and artists. His memoir, Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, was published in March by Little Toller.

Jeffrey Alfier’s recent books include Fugue for a Desert Mountain, Anthem for Pacific Avenue, and The Red Stag at Carrbridge: Scotland Poems. His publication credits include The Carolina Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, and Poetry Ireland Review. He is founder and co-editor of Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review.

Jem Day Calder lives in London. This is his first published work of fiction.

Jenna Clake is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham, researching the feminine and feminist Absurd in twenty-first century poetry. Her debut collection, Fortune Cookie, won the Melita Hume Prize and is published by Eyewear.

Jennie Taylor is a curator and writer from Dublin currently based in Brooklyn,
New York. She has curated group and solo exhibitions in spaces including The
Joinery, Monster Truck Gallery and The Mart.

Jennifer Brady has stories published in The Stinging Fly, Southword, Incorrigibly Plural and These Are Our Lives. She was short listed for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition 2003. She wrote and directed a play for Trinity’s Players Theatre (2006) and is a graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing.

Jennifer Kronovet is the author of the poetry collection Awayward (BOA Edition). She was born and raised in New York City and now lives in St Louis, Missouri, where she is Writer-in-Residence at Washington University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fence, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Jennifer Matthews writes poetry and reviews. She has been published in Mslexia, Poetry Salzburg, Foma & Fontanelles, Cork Literary Review, and in Dedalus’s ‘Landing Places’ anthology (2010). She is working towards her first collection.

Jennifer Winters studied English at Trinity College, Dublin, and she has an MA in creative writing from Goldsmith in London. Her poems have been published in various publications in the UK. She lives in London where she works as a teacher.

Jessamine O Connor lives on the Sligo Roscommon border where she facilitates ‘Epic Award’ winners The Hermit Collective, and the Wrong Side of the Tracks Writers. Her poem ‘Brothers –7th May 1916’ was performed at the Sheehy Skeffington Human Rights School, and King House, Boyle, by actor Donal O Kelly and musicians Dee and Louis Armstrong. Jessamine has won or been placed in several poetry competitions; was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize; and was ‘Featured Poet International’ for Muse-Pie Press throughout 2016. She judged the New Roscommon Writing Award 2015, the 2017 Roscommon Poets Prize for Strokestown Poetry Festival, and also ran local events for National Poetry Day, 2016 and 2017. Her three self-published chapbooks are available fromwww.jessamineoconnor.com and the Black Light Engine Room Press are publishing another, which will be launched at the Teeside Book Festival in June 2017.

Jessica Maybury is from Dublin. Most recently her work has appeared in the Bare Hands Poetry Print Anthology and in Apt Magazine. She is the founder and co-editor of ESC zine.

Jessica Traynor’s collections are Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2018) from Dedalus Press. Forthcoming projects include Paper Boat, an opera commissioned by Music for Galway and Galway 2020. She’s Carlow Writer in Residence in 2020, and the recipient of the 2020 Banagher Public Art Commission. She is a Creative Fellow at UCD.

Jessu John is working to complete a first collection of poems. Her poetry is forthcoming in Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions and has featured in Magma as well as Ink Sweat And Tears. She enjoys practising abstract art.

Jill Crawford is from County Derry. Her stories have appeared in n+1, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers and Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber). Essays have appeared in Caught By The River, Holy Show, Boundless, and The New Frontier: Reflections from the Irish Border (New Island). A novel, supported by ACNI, will be completed very soon. Prior to writing, she acted in theatre and on screen.

Jill Jones’ most recent works include The Beautiful Anxiety, which won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, Breaking the Days, which won the 2014 Whitmore Press Award, and a chapbook, The Leaves Are My Sisters.

Jill Osier is an American poet. Her collection ‘The Solace Is Not the Lullaby’ was selected for the 2019 Yale Younger Poets Prize and was published by Yale University Press in 2020.

Jill Talbot’s writing has appeared in Geist, Rattle, Poetry Is Dead, The Puritan, Matrix, subTerrain, The Tishman Review, The Cardiff Review, PRISM, Southword, and others. Jill won the PRISM Grouse Grind Lit Prize. Jill lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.

James Harpur’s latest book, Angels and Harvesters (Anvil Press), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Prize. He lives in West Cork.

James Hudson is a writer from Dublin exploring queer and trans life through speculative fiction. His writing is published with Monstrous Regiment, Southword Editions, Pop Up Projects and The Liminal Review. He works with the Small Trans Library and the Trans Writers Union to improve the accessibility of trans writing in Ireland.

James J. O’Brien is a retired secondary schoolteacher, living in County Dublin. He was conferred with an MA in Drama and Perfomance Studies at University College Dublin in 2006.

James Kelman, writer, was born many years ago in Glasgow, and will probably die there.

James Martyn is from Galway. He has had poems published in The Cúirt Journal, West 47, Full Moon and Crannóg. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2006.

James Meredith, from Belfast, was first prize winner in the Brian Moore Short Story Award 2002 and runner-up in 2003. He has had stories published in Breaking the Skin: Twenty-First Century Irish Writing from Black Mountain Press.

James Norcliffe is an award-winning New Zealand poet. His fifth collection Along Blueskin Road, will be published this year by Canterbury University Press. Recent work has appeared in Verse, New Delta Review, Stand, Rialto and The Tabla Book of New Verse.

James Owens’s most recent collection of poems is Mortalia (FutureCycle Press, 2015).. His poems, stories, and translations appear widely in literary journals, including publications in The Fourth River, Connecticut River Review, Southword, and Poetry Ireland Review. He lives in Indiana and northern Ontario.

James Patterson is from Newry, Co. Down. Recent publications have included: Hennessy New Irish Writing (The Irish Times); Magma; New Statesman; and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2017 he received an ACES bursary from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He is working on his first collection.

James Plunkett was born in Dublin in 1920. His work includes the short story collections The Trusting and the Maimed and Collected Short Stories; the novels Strumpet City, Farewell Companions, and The Circus Animals; the essay collections The Gems She Wore and The Boy on the Back Wall. A member of Aosdana, he lived in Dublin and died on May 28, 2003.

James O’Sullivan lectures at University College Cork. His most recent collection of
poetry Courting Katie was published by Salmon in 2017. James is also the author of the
critical text Towards a Digital Poetics (Palgrave 2019). His poetry has appeared in various
magazines, including The SHOp, Cyphers and Southword. See jamesosullivan.org.

James Ward is from Westmeath. He holds an MA in Creative Writing and
Education from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is currently working on
his first novel. He lives in London.