Jo Slade
Jo Slade studied Art and Design at the Limerick and National Colleges of Art and Design and exhibits her paintings widely.
Her collections are In Fields I Hear Them Sing (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1989); The Vigilant One (Salmon Poetry, 1994), which was nominated for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize; Certain Octobers (Quimpeir, France, Editions Eireanna, 1997), which received a publication bursary from the Centre du Livre, Paris; and City of Bridges (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Publishing, 2005).
She was nominated in 2003 for the Prix Evelyn Encelot Ecriture Prize, Maison des Ecrivains, Paris.
She lives in Limerick.