Jessica Traynor (born 1984), is an Irish poet and creative writing teacher.
She attended University College Dublin where she completed an MA in creative writing in 2008.
The anthology was to raise funds for Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, to call for an end to direct provision.
[2][4][5][6] Traynor has had works on the RTÉ’s Poetry Programme, BBC Radio 4, Sunday Miscellany and The Salvage Press.
She has won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year and the Listowel Poetry Prize.