Michael Carroll

Michael Owen Carroll (born 21 March 1966) is an Irish writer of novels and short stories for adults and children. He is best known for his series of superhero novels The New Heroes and for his romantic fiction under the name Jaye Carroll. He also writes Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine.

After leaving school at sixteen, he worked as a postman. He moved into computer programming in 1985 at the age of nineteen. 

In 1990 he met his future wife, Leonia Mooney, at the first Octocon (the modern series of Irish National Science Fiction Conventions). He was an Octocon committee member in 1992, 1997 and 2003-2004, and in 2004 he succeeded James Brophy as Chairperson, overseeing a successful convention, after the event took a break in 2003, with guest-of-honor Tanith Lee. 

He became a full-time writer in 1999.