Jay Rafferty is a redhead, an uncle and an eejit. He is the Poetry Editor for Sage Cigarettes Magazine and a guest lecturer on Contemporary and Irish Poetry. His debut poetry chapbook, Holy Things, was published in March by The Broken Spine and his follow-up chapbook, Strange Magic, was released in June 2022 by Alien Buddha Press. You can read his work in several journals including Capsule Stories, Lights on the Horizon and Daily Drunk Magazine. When not losing games of pool he, sometimes, writes stuff.