Jean Tuomey is a Mayo based poet whose work has appeared widely in journals. Her debut collection, Swept Back, (Lapwing Publications) was launched in 2022 and her second, Vanishing, is forthcoming in 2026.
She facilitates creative writing groups.
Jean Tuomey’s debut collection is Swept Back (Lapwing, 2022). Her second, Vanishing, is due in 2026, also from Lapwing Publications. In 2021, her chapbook, Magical Thinking, was highly commended in the Fools for Poetry competition. She won the 2021 Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award and, in 2022, the St Francis Hospice poetry prize. She received the 2023 Cathaoirleach Award for Contribution to the Arts in Mayo.
Jean trained with the National Association of Poetry Therapy in the US and facilitates writing groups in Ireland and in London.
