Joanne McCarthy writes in Waterford in English and Irish. She is published in Rattle, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Aneas, Comhar and more. Bronnadh Gradam Máire Mac an tSaoi uirthu I 2022 agus bhuaigh dán dá cuid comórtas an Fhéich Dhuibh 2023. She is founder and co-editor of the literary journal The Waxed Lemon. She is currently reading poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre.