Jo Zebedee
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Jo Zebedee | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Irish |
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Jo Zebedee (born 1971), is a Northern Irish science fiction and fantasy writer, based in Carrickfergus near Belfast.
She is considered one of Ireland's top Science fiction and fantasy writers.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Her novels are often set in Northern Ireland.[5][7][8]
Zebedee attended Victoria Primary School and Carrickfergus Grammar School before completing a degree in English Literature. She has been chairperson for Women Aloud NI. She has taught at Stranmillis College[9] and for the Crescent Arts Centre where she runs creative writing classes. She is also a mentor with the Irish Writers' Centre. Zebedee was a guest of the Belfast Book festival and the C. S. Lewis festival. She was a guest for Titancon, the main Northern Ireland convention, and chair for the event in 2020.[10] She's also been a guest of Octocon, Ireland's national convention. Zebedee also works for her own management consultancy.
Zebedee founded OtherworldsNI, a group for speculative fiction writers.[11]
In 2024, she was awarded Arts Council Funding; she plans to write a sequel to Irish Carraig.[12]
Zebedee and her husband run a bookshop in Carrickfergus.[13] In March 2024, the shop won the British Book Award for Independent Bookshop of the Year for the Island of Ireland.[14][15]