Michael Ray lives in West Cork. His poems have appeared in The Moth, The Shop, The Penny Dreadful, One, Southword, Magma, Numero Cinq and New Contrast. In 2012 he was a winner in the Fish International poetry competition. In 2013 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award.

Michael Wynne has had fiction anthologised in Ireland, Britain, Canada, and the USA. His reviews have appeared in The Examiner, Magill, and The Harvard Review. He is currently reading Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin.

Mary Mullen was born and raised in Alaska and has lived in County Galway for twelve years. She was a featured reader at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature Over the Edge Showcase and was also selected to read in Dublin as part of the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series.

Mary Noonan’s poems have been published in print and online magazines in Ireland, Britain and the US, and at the audio-archive fishousepoems.org. She was awarded the Listowel Poetry Collection Prize in June 2010. Her first collection, The Fado House, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012.

Mary O’Donnell is the author of eleven books, both poetry and fiction, and she has also co-edited a book of translations from the Galician. Her latest book, Those April Fevers, is forthcoming from Arc Publications. She lives in Kildare.

Mary O’Donoghue grew up in County Clare. Her short stories have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta, The Kenyon Review, The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Georgia Review, Subtropics, The Common, and elsewhere. She has published poetry collections with Salmon Poetry and Dedalus Press and translations in dual language volumes from Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Bloodaxe Books, and Yale University Press. Her novel Before the House Burns was published by Lilliput Press in 2010. She has been awarded fiction fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is senior fiction editor at the literary magazine AGNI. Mary’s debut story collection, The Hour After Happy Hour, will be published in June 2023 by The Stinging Fly Press.

Mary O’Malley taught the MA programmes for Writing and Education in the Arts at NUI Galway for ten years, held the Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2013, and has held various international and national residencies. She has been active in Environmental education for twenty years with a specific interest in the Sea and Bogland. She has published seven books of poetry, the most recent ‘Valparaiso’ arising out of her Residency on the national marine research ship. ‘Playing The Octopus’ is her latest book of poems, published in 2017 by Carcanet.

Mary Rose Callan’s second poetry collection, Footfalls of Snow, was published by Bradshaw Books (Cork) in 2005.

Mary Woodward has an Irish and Welsh background (South Sligo and Ceredigion). She published The White Valentine (Worple Press) in 2014 and was highly commended in the Forward Prize 2015 and the Gregory O’Donoghue competition 2016. She also writes fiction.

Maryanne Doyle is a poet and computer scientist from Dublin who began to share her poetry in late 2015 after writing for ten years. She was recently a finalist in the All Ireland Poetry Slam, performed at Lingo, and for six thousand students at the Cycle Against Suicide’s Student Leaders Congress.

Matthew Firth lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is publisher/editor of the literary magazine, Front&Centre, and is the author of two story collections: Fresh Meat (Rush Hour Revisions, 1997) and Can you take me there, now? (Boheme Press, 2001) .

Matthew Geden was born and brought up in the English Midlands, moving to Kinsale in 1990. His most recent book is The Place Inside, published by Dedalus Press.

Matthew Sweeney’s most recent collection, Inquisition Lane, came out from Bloodaxe in 2015. Previous collection, Horse Music (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the inaugural Piggott Poetry Prize. In between there were two pamphlets in 2014, The Gomera Notebook (Shoestring) and Twentyone Men and a Ghost (The Poetry Business).

Maureen Gallagher’s first collection of poetry was published by Wordsonthestreet in 2008. She was a prizewinner in both poetry and prose in the Wicklow Writers’ Competition 2008. Her website can be
viewed at www.maureengallagher.net.

Maureen Hill is a retired secondary schoolteacher living in Belfast. She has published poems in England and Wales and in the current anthology of Shalom Writer’s Group, Belfast. She is a member of the Writers’ group at the Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB.

Maureen Mulhern was born in Birmingham, England, and now lives in the United States. Her first collection, Parallax, was published by Wesleyan University Press. She has had poems published in numerous journals in the US including Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse and Poetry.

Maurice Harmon has published two chapbooks, The Book of Precedence (1994) and A Stillness at Kiawah (1996). His collection, The Last Regatta, will be published by Salmon next summer.

Maurice Leitch was born in County Antrim and is the author of novels, short stories, radio and television plays and documentaries. Poor Lazarus won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1969, and Silver’s City the Whitbread in 1981. He was awarded an MBE in 1999 for services to Literature. His latest novel, Seeking Mr Hare, was published in 2013.

Max Schleicher works as a digital marketer in Chicago. He can be found @maxschl.

Maxine Jones worked on the Independent Magazine in London before moving to Dublin in 1990. She contributes to The Sunday Tribune and has written a book on Irish businesswomen (Mercier).

Méabh de Brún was a finalist in the Cúirt Grand Slam poetry competition and is an Arcade Award nominated playwright. Her writing has been featured on headstuff.ie and in Irish Imbas: Celtic Mythology Collection. You can find her waxing lyrical on twitter as @jooovinile.

Medbh McGuckian works at The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her lastest collection, due from Gallery Press this autumn, is specifically concerned with the experience of women. Her next will be the opposite, about poetry.

Mark Murphy was born in 1969. He studied philosophy at college and poetry at Huddersfield University. His manuscript, Our Little Bit Of Immortality, based on the work of the artist David Hockney is presently doing the rounds on publishers’ desks.

Mark Noonan is from Clonmel, County Tipperary and now lives in Cork, where he studies Ethnomusicology at UCC and plays the banjo. Some of his poems are available online in Moloch (www.moloch.ie).

Mark O’Halloran is from Ennis, County Clare, and works mostly as an actor. His new play ‘Mary Motorhead’ will be performed in the new year. ‘The Head of Red O’Brien’ was nominated for Best Show and Mark himself for the Jane Snow Award at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival Awards.

Mark Ronan is a thirty-seven-year-old, married father of two. He works as a tutor with the Ballymun Adult Read and Write Scheme and the School of English, Drama and Film, UCD. He writes mostly on addiction, appetites and agency.

Mark Roper’s collections include The Hen Ark, Catching The Light (Peterloo/Lagan, 1997), The Home Fire (Abbey Press, 1998) and Whereabouts (Peterloo/Abbey Press, 2005). Even So: New & Selected Poems was published by Dedalus Press in Autumn 2008.

Mark Swartz is an American writer who lived across the street from Dublin’s James Joyce Centre in 1998. His story ‘Dear Mr Yeats’ appeared in Issue Two of this magazine.