Jessie Lendennie
| Date of Birth: | 1 January 1946 |
Jessie Lendennie, born in Blytheville, Arkansas and educated in London, she is the founder and Managing Editor of Salmon Poetry. She has commissioned and published more than 600 books of poetry and prose. As a poet, her prose poem Daughter was published in 1988, and reissued with new poems in 2001. In 1990, The Salmon Guide to Poetry Publishing appeared and in 1992 by The Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland. She has also edited Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007 (Salmon, 2007) and Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it (Salmon, 2009) and Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (2010). Her poetry collection, Walking Here, appeared in 2011.
