Tess Barry was shortlisted for the 2015 Manchester Poetry Prize. Twice a finalist for North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and Aesthetica Magazine’s Poetry Award, she also was shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport Poetry Prize. Her poems have been widely published. She teaches literature and creative writing at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. tessbarrypoet.com

Tess Gallagher is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and playwright. Her most recent poetry collection, Dear Ghosts, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2007. Her New and Selected Poems is to be published by Graywolf in 2011. She spends parts of each year in her cottage on the Sligo-Roscommon border.

Ted Dodson is the author of At the National Monument / Always Today (Pioneer Works, 2016) and Pop! in Spring (Diez, 2013). He edits for BOMB and Futurepoem and is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

Susan Em took first prize in the short story category of this year’s GCN/Smirnoff Black Queer Writes Award. She has written a novel for children and a novel for adults and is currently finishing a screenplay. She works as an archivist in Belfast.

Susanne Ringell, a Finland-Swedish writer, was born in Helsinki in 1955 and is a prize-winning author, poet and dramatist. Her first collection of short stories appeared in 1993. She has won the Swedish Literary Association in Finland’s prize three times: for Katt begraven (Buried Cat) in 2004, published in French translation 2006 as Chat enterré, and most recently for Vattnen (The Waters), her ninth book, published in 2010. Vattnen was also awarded the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle’s literature prize, with the citation: ‘every word is polished to perfection and every single meaning is loaded.’

Tadhg Russell lives in Doneraile, North Cork and has been writing poetry for the last number of years. His work has been published by Southword, Cyphers, New Irish Writing, Crannog, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stony Thursday Book, West47, Atlanta Review (USA) and Solas Nua (USA). He was on the shortlist for The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2010 and took second prize in the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition in 2011. He was featured poet in The Stinging Fly winter issue 2012-13. His short stories have appeared in the Cork Evening Echo.

Sue Ann Alderson teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. Her poems have been published in The Antigonish Review, The Antioch Review, West Coast Review and New West Writing.

Susan Tomaselli is editor of gorse, the literary journal. She has written for the Guardian, Bookmunch, CultureNI and has contributed to Little Black Book of Books (Cassell, 2007) and The Beat Anthology (Blackheath Books, 2010). She currently lives in Dublin.

Susan Clegg lives in London and is a member of the Three Johns Azzuri writing group. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Winner of the prix Goncourt, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the prix Maghreb, Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Morocco and emigrated to France in 1961. He is a regular contributor to Le Monde and has written more than thirty novels, including The Sacred Night, The Sand Child, Corruption, This Blinding Absence of Light, Leaving Tangier and others. Ben Jelloun’s prose is at once lyrical, poetic and rich in fairy tale, imagery, metaphor and symbolism.

Susan Lanigan formerly worked in the IT industry and is currently completing a Masters in Writing at NUI Galway. She wrote, produced and directed her play Sister Nobody for the Muscailt Festival in February and has had poetry published in Electric Acom.

Succat: Keats and Chapman are characters created by Myles na gCopaleen used mostly in his Irish Times column, Cruiskeen Lawn. This new piece by Succat is a tug of the forelock in the direction of l’altissimo poeta.

Susan Knight is a writer and critic, author of two novels, The Invisible Woman and Grimaldi’s Garden, and a work of non-fiction entitled Where the Grass is Greener: Voices of Immigrant Women in Ireland. On a recent holiday to Cuba, she strayed on to the Hemingway trail, ‘For Ever and Ever’ is, nevertheless, neither about Hemingway nor about Gregorio Fuentes, who is said to have inspired The Old Man and the Sea, but a work purely of the imagination.

Synne Johnsson is a Norwegian writer, currently studying creative writing and journalism at Kingston University. She is inspired by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and Frank O’Hara. Her work has appeared in Kingston University’s student anthology, Ripple.

Tadhg Coakley is a writer from Cork. His debut novel, The First Sunday in September, was published by The Mercier Press in 2018. He has just completed a crime novel set in Cork city and is currently working on a book of essays about his lifelong intimacy with sport.

Susanne Cummings was born in Dublin. She is an Electronic Engineer and is currently studying for a Masters at UCD. This is her first published poem.

Susanne Stich is originally from Nürnberg, living in the Northwest of Ireland. Her writing appeared in Ambit, The Incubator, The Impressment Gang, and many other literary magazines. She is also a regular contributor to The Honest Ulsterman.

Suzanne Power’s novels have sold rights to territories worldwide. Her two most recent books were non-fiction. This year she has produced short stories and poetry which have been published in various collections. ‘Pilgrimage’ was written as an outcome of the Coracle International Writers’ professional development residency. This residency was part funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Interreg 4a programme. www.coracle.eu.com

Susan Millar DuMars’ debut collection of short stories, Lights In The Distance, was published in 2010 by Doire Press (www.doirepress.com). She has been the recipient of an Arts Council bursary for her fiction. Susan has also published two poetry collections with Salmon. ‘The Observences’ won the 2016 Seamus Heaney Prize.

Stefani Tran is a Vietnamese-Filipino writer, currently in the MPhil in Creative Writing programme at Trinity College Dublin. She’s concealed her heart beneath your floorboards, and its ceaseless beating will haunt you. Deal with it. Find her online at stefanitran.weebly.com.

Stephanie Papa is a poet and translator living Paris, France. She has an MFA degree in Poetry from the Pan European programme. She is poetry co-editor of Paris Lit Up. Her work has been published in World Literature Today, Niche, Yasakmeyve, NOON, great weather for media, Four Chambers Press, Paris/Atlantic, Literary Bohemian, Rumpus, and more. She organises writing workshops and readings in Paris.

SJ Mannion is a Dubliner living in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has previously published work in The Prole and The Moth. She is married, with three children, and is desperately doing domesticity.

Stephen Walsh lives in Dublin. He started writing stories a few years ago. Some of them have been featured in The White Review Short Story Prize and the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Competition. He’s currently working on a first collection.

Sonya Gildea was born in Cork and now lives in Dublin. She is writing the poetry collection, Fragments; the short story collection, Heartscapes; and her debut novel, Tenderness. She has also received a number of awards for screenwriting.

Stiofán Ó hIfearnáin is studying history in University College Dublin. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series this year.

Stephen Murray is an award-winning poet and adventurer who lives in county Galway. His debut collection ‘House of Bees’ was published in 2011 by Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in numerous journals around the world.

Stephanie C. Molloy was born in Dublin in 1989. Childhood summers were spent in Clonakilty, West Cork, where her grandmother was born. In 2011 she graduated from UCD in Archaeology. In 2012 she was accepted to the University of Ulster, Belfast, where she will continue to write.

Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast where he teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Granta, Poetry London, and Best British Poetry 2015. His pamphlet, Oils, published by The Emma Press in 2014, was the Poetry Book Society’s Winter Pamphlet Choice. His first book will be published by Penguin in 2019.

Stephen Kennedy is from Drogheda, County Louth. He had a poem in Issue Two of this magazine and his short fiction has appeared in Books Ireland.

Stephen Devereux grew up in Suffolk and was a factory and farm worker before going to UEA as a mature student. He has taught and lectured in the North West and has published critical essays, short stories and poetry in British, Irish, American and Austrian journal and magazines.