Jilly O’Brien is an award-winning poet and psychologist living on the Otago Peninsula in Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ. She has had poems published in journals and anthologies worldwide and has had her poetry displayed on the ice in Antarctica, on benches in Dunedin, and on the back of parking tickets.

Jilly O'Brien's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry, over a period of three years.