John Menaghan

John Menaghan, a prize-winning poet and playwright, has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland): All the Money in the World (1999), She Alone (2006), What Vanishes (2009) and Here and Gone (2014).   A fifth book, composed entirely of jazz-related poems, is forthcoming from Salmon in 2021.  His short plays have to date received a total of 6 productions, and one --“A Rumor of Rain”--was published in The Hollow & Other Plays (2008).  His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Ambit, The Hopkins Review, Brilliant Corners, Poetry Ireland, The Cuirt Journal, Atlanta Review, nth position, Berkeley Poetry Review, Revival, California Quarterly, The Adirondack Review, and American Arts Quarterly.  In addition, Menaghan has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in four different years.