Hugh McFadden : Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, but has lived in Dublin since childhood. He has had poems published in a variety of literary magazines, including Aquarius, Belfast Review, Broadsheet (ed. Hayden Murphy), The Cork Review, Cyphers, Great Book of Ireland, Irish University Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, and Poetry Ireland Review. His first collection, Cities of Mirrors, was published by Beaver Row Press. A second collection, Pieces of Time, was published in 2004 by Lapwing Press.
His Selected Poems, subtitled Elegies & Epiphanies, was published in 2005 by Lagan Press, Belfast. He is the executor of the literary estate of the late Irish writer, John Jordan, the founding editor of Poetry Ireland/Poetry Ireland Review. He edited The Collected Poems of John Jordan (Dedalus Press, 1991), The Collected Stories of John Jordan (Poolbeg, 1991), and Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan, published by Lilliput Press, Dublin recently. He works as a freelance journalist in Dublin and as a lecturer in journalism.