Jo Zebedee is a Northern Irish science fiction and fantasy writer. She is based in Carrickfergus, near Belfast, Antrim.. Jo loves using Northern Ireland as a setting: Inish Carraig is about an alien invasion in Belfast, while Waters and the Wild (Quill) is a fantasy about a girl who disappears and in transported in the world of fairies in Antrim Glen. Jo also helps to run The Secret Bookshelf in Carrickfergus and is a management consultant. Jo is doing a lot of work to spread knowledge of speculative fiction in Ireland: she is the founder of OtherworldsNI, a community group for speculative fiction writers, and is chair of Titancon, Belfast’s annual spec fiction convention.