Jay Faulkner resides in Northern Ireland with his wife, Carole, and their two boys, Mackenzie and Nathaniel. He says that while he is a writer, martial artist, sketcher, and dreamer he's mostly just a husband and father.

His work has been published widely, both online and in print anthologies, and was short-listed in the 2010 Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition.

He is currently working on his first novel.

Jay founded, and edits, 'With Painted Words' - www.withpaintedwords.com - a creative writing site with inspiration from monthly image prompts and 'The WiFiles' – www.thewifiles.com – an online speculative fiction magazine, published weekly; With Painted Words was voted #10 in the 2010 Preditors and Editors Poll at Critters.