Jennifer spent many years in the US and the UK working in health care and education and then returned to West Cork where she set up and co-runs Hungry Hill Writing, a writers’ group which hosts two international poetry competitions a year. She has been published in a number of poetry journals and anthologies and has written a play which has been successfully staged. She teaches Public Health, part-time, in University College Cork. Her collection of poems Backlit was published by Hen Run, an imprint of Grey Hen Press in the UK, in January 2019.