Jason Johnson

Dubbed the Irish Irvine Welsh, Jason Johnson was born in Enniskillen in 1969 and has lived in Belfast, England and the USA.

He has been a barman, a shoe salesman a car washer, a supermarket employee, a waiter, a courier, a chair-ride operator, an apprentice stonemason, and a painter and decorator.

As a freelance journalist, he worked for the Irish News and Belfast Telegraph before taking the News Editor position at the Irish Sunday People, which he left in 2004.

His first novel, Woundlicker, earned him the title ‘the Irish Irvine Welsh’.

More information on the author and his writings may be found at: www.woundlicker.com