Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast Creators & Guests

Jessica Traynor is a poet and creative writing teacher, and poetry reviewer for RTÉ’s Arena and for Poetry Ireland Review.Traynor served as Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre and Deputy Museum Director of EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. She was Poet in Residence at the Yeats Society, Sligo and a Creative Fellow of UCD. Trayner's first book, the poetry collection "Liffey Swim," was published in 2014. Her essays and interviews have been published in The Dublin Review, Tolka, Banshee, Winter Papers, Sunday Miscellany 50, and We Are Dublin. She has written libretti for a number of operas.