Jean O'Brien reading at the White House, Limerick, Ireland

Jean O'Brien is a Dubliner now living in the Irish Midlands. Her work is widely published 

in magazines and journals. She has published two other collections, The Shadow Keeper,

(Salmon 1997) and Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw Books, 2005) Her latest book,

Lovely Legs is recently published by Salmon. She holds an M.Phil. in Creative Writing

from Trinity College, Dublin. She facilitates creative writing classes for a wide variety

or organizations from the Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin City Council and other County

Councils to Mountjoy, Limerick and the Midlands Prisons.  She was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Laois in 2005. She was the 2008 recipient of the Fish International Poetry Award. Also in

2008 she was commissioned to write a poem for the Oxfam Calendar.

Her poetry was described by Fiona Sampson writing in the Irish Times as "...effortless writing, graceful and exact as any pirouette in its insight".