Jessie Lendennie was born in Arkansas, USA. After years of travel, she
settled in Ireland in 1981. Her previous publications include a
book-length prose poem Daughter (1988); reprinted as Daughter and
Other Poems in 2001. She complied and edited: Salmon: A Journey in
Poetry, 1981-2007; Poetry: Reading it, Writing It, Publishing It (2009) and Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (2010). She is co-founder (1981) and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry. Her poems, essays and articles have been widely published and she has
given numerous readings, lectures and writing courses in Ireland and
abroad, including Yale University; Rutgers University; The Irish
Embassy, Washington D.C; The University of Alaska, Fairbanks and
Anchorage; MIT, Boston; The Loft, Minneapolis, MN; Café Teatre,
Copenhagen, Denmark; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; The
Irish American Cultural Centre, Chicago and The Bowery Poetry Club, New
York City. She is currently working on a memoir To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky.
