Patrick Chapman is an Irish poet, author and scriptwriter born in 1968. He lives in Dublin. His poetry collections are Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991), The New Pornography, (Salmon Poetry, 1996), Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights, (Salmon Poetry, 2007) and A Shopping Mall on Mars, (BlazeVOX, 2008). His collection of stories is The Wow Signal.