Jessie Lendennie was born in Blytheville, Arkansas. She is co-founder (1981) and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry, for which she has commissioned and published over 600 volumes of poetry as well as a select list of literary criticism, drama, fiction, memoir and essays. Her own publications include a book-length prose poem Daughter (1988), reprinted as Daughter and Other Poems in 2001 and a collection of poetry, Walking Here (2011). Her poetry has also been anthologised in Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices, Unveiling Treasures, The Attic Guide To The Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers and The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets, among others. She regularly attends the AWP Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in the US, where Salmon is a prominent presence, having been shortlisted for the Small Press Publisher of the Year AWP in 2015. In 2012, she opened The Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre in Ennistymon, Co. Clare, a vibrant hub for literary events, for writers, readers, students & academics, and the base from which Salmon Poetry runs its publishing operation.
Siobhán Hutson Jeanotte was born in London and grew up in Galway. She began working with Salmon Publishing in 1991 and learned about book publishing from the ground up. In 1997, along with her brother Aidan of Solas Web Design, she designed Salmon Poetry’s first website – www.salmonpoetry.com – making Salmon only the second book publisher in Ireland to have a website. There are now three websites under the Salmon umbrella: the others are www.salmonpoetry40.com, celebrating Salmon’s 40th anniverary, and www.thesalmonbookshop.com which sells a wide range of new & collectable books from the premises of The Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre in Ennistymon, County Clare. Siobhán is Salmon Poetry’s Head of Book Production, Salmon’s administrator and is co-director of the company alongside Jessie Lendennie. She designs and typesets the Salmon books and promotional material as well as maintaining the Salmon websites. She began designing the Salmon book covers in 2001 and, to date, has designed 474 covers. She has a First Class Honours Degree in Film, Radio and Television Studies. She lives in Clare with her husband Tim, daughter Eve and their cats. She loves dogs too though.
