NIGEL JARRETT is a journalist, poet and short-story writer. In 1995, he won Rhys Davies Memorial Prize for contemporary short fiction; his winning entry Mrs Kuroda on Penyfan, has twice been broadcast by the BBC. His work has appeared in many international journals. Since the 1980s, he has been music critic of the South Wales Argus.
KEITH JEBB's last two publications were tonnes (2008) and hide white space (2006), both from Kater Murr's Press. He runs the Creative Writing course at the University of Bedfordshire, is editor of Divergence, a new online journal of innovative writing and text-art, and is co-organizer of the Blue Bus poetry reading series in London.
PHILIP JENKINS lives in Cardiff, Wales, and works with old people. His publications include The Fantasy Childhood Reset (Second Aeon, 1971), The Birth of Venus (Transgravity, 1973), A Sailor's Suit and Cap (Joe di Maggio, 1976), On the Beach with Eugène Boudin (Transgravity, 1978), Cairo (Books 1 & 2: Editions Grand Hôtel de Palme à Palerme, 1981; Book 3: Shearsman 63/64 (April 2005)), Travels with Kandy (Rigmarole, 1982) and Lost Toys (Burnt Alaska, 1998).
MARTIN JERVIS lives in Leeds, England. His poetry has been published in the UK, the United States, Canada and Australia. He spends part of the year in India and has written a series of poems with an Indian theme.
ADAM JOHNSON (1965-1993). Born in Stalybridge, Cheshire. Moved to London in 1984. Worked for the BBC, a theater booking agency, and a reference book publisher. Died in 1993 from an AIDS-related virus. Poems (Hearing Eye, 1992), The Spiral Staircase (Acumen, 1993), The Playground Bell (Carcanet, 1994). Forthcoming: Collected Poems (Carcanet, May 2003).
JENNIFER JOHNSON. Born in Bakht-er-Ruda, Sudan. Came to England as a child. Has worked as an agriculturalist in Zambia. Now a publications assistant at the History of Parliament Trust. Poems in Stand, Rialto, Interpreter's House, Other Poetry, The Journal, The New Writer, The Yellow Crane, Pulsar, and others.
JENNY JOHNSON was born in 1945 in Bristol, England. She was a "war babe", her father being an American naval officer and her mother an Anglo-Russian Jew. She was adopted and educated at The Red Maids' School, Bristol - the oldest girls' school in the country. Her main books are The Wisdom Tree (Collected Poems 1975-1993, University of Salzburg Press, 1993) and Neptune's Daughters (Expansions Unlimited, 1999). She lives in Nottingham.
FRED JOHNSTON was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1951. He moved to Galway in 1976 where, in 1986, he founded Galway's now annual literature festival. At the moment he is involved in setting up a writers' centre in Galway. Eight collections of poems, two novels and a collection of stories have been published, along with three plays performed. He was a journalist for a number of years. Currently he teaches Creative Writing at Galway University. Recent publications: True North (Salmon Poetry, 1997), Paris without Maps (Northwords Folio, 2002), Being Anywhere (Lagan Press, 2002). His poetry has been published widely in magazines and newspapers such as TLS, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Poetry Ireland, The Irish Times, The Spectator, and The Honest Ulsterman.
DEDWYDD JONES is a Welsh playwright, novelist and journalist. He has been writing for over thirty years and has produced a large body of work. His many plays range from the epic to the monologue, from satires to apocalyptic romps to historical dramas and domestic tragedies.
DOUG JONES is 34 years old and has lived in east London since 1991. Currently studying under Clive Bush at Kings College London, doing a post graduate research project on the poet Bill Griffiths. His poems are heavily influenced by Griffiths and the late Bob Cobbing, also the group gathered around Writers Forum, which published Jones's bluegreen-grey.
PETER BEN JONES was born in Hampstead, London, read Science and Philosophy at King's College, London University. An Information Science career (medical research, nuclear power) coincides with his poetry output. The Blue, the Leaning-Down Blue was published by Poetry Salzburg in 1995. Prizes include The New York Avant Garde Award, Scottish National Open, and Iolaire Chapbook Award. He now lives in Welshpool, Wales.
NORMAN JOPE was born in 1960 in Plymouth, where he currently lives and works as an administrator at the College of St. Mark and St. John. Editor, Memes, 1989-94. Collections include For the Wedding Guest (Stride, 1997) and Terra Fabulosa (Phlebas, 1999).
ANDREW JORDAN lives in Southampton (UK). Edits 10th Muse magazine. Poems published in Angel Exhaust, Oasis, PN Review, Shearsman, and Stand. His most recent collection of poems is Ha Ha (Shearsman, 2007).
TREVOR JOYCE co-founded New Writers' Press with Michael Smith in Dublin. He moved to Cork in 1984, where, under the short-lived imprint Melmoth Press, he published Brian Coffey's last volume of poetry. He still lives in Cork, where for many years he worked as a systems analyst for Apple Computer. Eight earlier books of poetry, along with much new material, were collected in the 2001 volume with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (NWP/Shearsman). His most recent collections are What's in Store (NWP/The Gig, 2007), a gathering of new work since 2001, and Courts of Air and Earth (Shearsman, 2008), which contains all his translations from Middle and Early-Modern Irish. He co-founded SoundEye Festival in 1997, and has been a director of the festival since then. He is a member of Aosdána.
JENNIFER JUNEAU's poems and fiction have appeared in Seattle Review, Poetry International, Outsider Ink, and Writers' Journal. Currently, she is studying English Language, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Zurich.