John Kelly was born in Enniskillen in 1965 and has long since lived in Dublin. An award-winning broadcaster and fiction writer, he has been publishing poetry for many years with his work featuring in many journals and anthologies including The New Young Irish Poets (ed. Gerald Dawe, 1991). His fiction titles include From Out of the City, shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards in 2014. A radio play, The Pipes, was broadcast by RTÉ. Notions is his first poetry collection.
