Jessamine O’Connor grew up in Dublin and moved to the west of
Ireland in 1999 where she now lives in an old train station on the
Sligo Roscommon border.
She is recipient of the Francis Ledwidge award, and winner of the
iYeats and Poetry Ireland Butler’s Café competitions. Her work has
been shortlisted at the Doolin Writer’s Weekend, Over the Edge New
Writer of the Year, Cúirt New Writing, Red Line Book Festival, Dead
Good Poetry, Westport Literary Festival and Hennessy Literary
Awards.
Her short film, The Stranger, was shortlisted for the 2019 O’Bhéal
International Poetry Film Competition. Publications include The
Stinging Fly, Poetry New Zealand, The North, The Ofi Press, One,
Shot Glass Journal, Abridged, Fifth Estate, The Poet’s Republic,
The Cormorant, Ink Sweat & Tears and New Irish Writing; and
anthologies such as Culture Matters, Yeats 150, The Colour of
Saying, and Strokestown Poetry Festival Anthology. She has
published several chapbooks including one with The Black Light
Engine Room press. This is her first collection.
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