Martin Dyar is from County Mayo. He has published poems in a number of journals and has won the Strokestown Poetry Award and the In the Sight of Raftery Prize. He is author of the play, Harp of My Country, about the life of Thomas Moore.

Martín Espada is the author of more than fifteen books. His latest collection of poems, The Trouble Ball, was released in 2011 by Norton. His previous collection, The Republic of Poetry (Norton, 2006), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a USA Simon Fellowship and the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Martin Hayes lives in Arklow, County Wicklow. He has written for various magazines, comics and anthologies including Nature, Neon, and Futurequake. You can visit him at www.paroneiria.com.

Martin Malone is the author of three novels. He has won the K250 International Short Story Award and RTE’S Francis MacManus Award. RTE broadcast his first radio play in November 2005 and his memoirs, The Lebanon Diaries, is due for publication in February 2007. He is currently preparing a collection of short stories for publication and revising a novel.

Martina Dalton’s poems have appeared in P’oetry Ireland Review’, ‘The Irish Times’’ ‘New Irish Writing’, ‘The Stony Thursday Book’, ‘Crannóg’, ‘Skylight 47’, ‘Channel’, and ‘The Honest Ulsterman’, among others. She was selected for Words Ireland’s National Mentoring Programme 2019. She received a notable mention in the Cúirt New Writing Prize 2020.

Martina Evans is a poet and novelist. Burnfort Las Vegas was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2015. The Windows of Graceland: New and Selected Poems will be published by Carcanet in 2016.

Mary Barnecutt was born in Belfast in 1973, was brought up in Hull, East Yorkshire and is currently based in Dublin where she plays the cello, teaches music and writes when things are quiet.

Mary Costello is originally from East Galway and now lives in Dublin. Her stories have been anthologised and published in New Irish Writing and in The Stinging Fly. The China Factory is her first book of stories. It is available now from our website and all good bookshops.

Mary Geoghegan is from Dublin and now lives in Longford. A member of the Longford Writers Group, her poetry has appeared in Books Ireland, Riposte, Slacker, The Sunday Times, Writing from Roscommon and the Longford Writers’ Journal.

Mary Morrissy is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel Penelope Unbound is forthcoming in 2023.

Máiríde Woods writes poetry, short stories and radio plays. Her work has appeared in many reviews and anthologies and her first collection of poetry, The Lost Roundness of the World, was published in 2006 by Astrolabe.

Máirtín Coilféir is from Navan in County Meath. He lives in Dublin, where he teaches at UCD.

Maiwand Banayee came to Ireland from Afghanistan in 2004. He spent over three years in direct provision and learnt English while living in Ireland. After receiving permission to stay here, he attended IT Carlow, graduating with a degree in Physical Therapy. He writes about war in Afghanistan from his direct experiences, and is currently writing a memoir.

Manuela Moser’s poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Hotel, The Tangerine, and Copper Nickel. She runs The Lifeboat poetry press and reading series.

Marc Harris lives in Wales. His poetry has appeared in Envoi, New Welsh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Scotland, Confrontation, The New Writer, The International Erotic Review, etc.

Margaret A. Frey’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many journals, including: Notre Dame Magazine, Kaleidoscope, Foliate Oak, and elsewhere. Most recent work was published by Flash Fiction Online, Used Furniture Review and The Dead Mule of Southern Literature.

Marge Piercy is the author of 16 collections of poetry including What Are The Big Girls Made Of?, The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme and Colors Passing Through Us. Her 16th novel, Three Women, was published in the UK by Piakus also publishers of her memoir, Sleeping With Cats. A CD of her political poetry, Louder We Can’t Hear You Yet, is out from Leapfrog Press.

Maria Behan is a fiction writer and journalist. She lives in San Francisco these days, but she left her heart in Dublin

Mariana Enriquez is the author of three novels, two collections of short stories and two works of non-fiction in Spanish. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages, and her most recent story collection, Things We Lost In The Fire, was published by Granta Books in 2017. Her stories have also appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, McSweeney’s and Asymptote.

Marianne O’Rourke was born in Dublin in 1985. She is a graduate of the M.Phil in Creative Writing programme at Trinity College Dublin. To date, she has published some works of short fiction and been shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Contest and the RTE Francis MacManus Short Story Competition. She is currently editing her first novel.

Marion Mathieu featured in this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions Readings. Her pamphlet, Gangster in the Mirror, was winner of the 1995 Jackson’s Arm Poetry Pamphlet Competition.

Mark Baker’s time living and working in Knockmaroon, a farm estate in North County Dublin, has led him to write around experience of natural process in some of it’s various dimensions.

Mark Farrell lives and works in the Czech Republic. His work is forthcoming in Coffee House, Poetry International, Confrontation, LiNQ, Hermes, Scrivener, paperplates and White Wall Review.

Mark Granier’s poetry collection, Airborne, was published by Salmon in 2001. He was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2002. His photographs have been used on several covers of Poetry Ireland Review and his postcard portrait of Allen Ginsberg featured in a recent Pictureworks showcase.

Mark Harrell lives in Dublin.

Mark Kilroy is the writer and director of the films, Hard Shoulder (Channel 4) and Double Carpet (RTÉ). Shortlisted for The Sean O’Faolain Prize and two Hennessy Awards, his short stories have appeared in Southword, Krino and The Sunday Tribune. He has completed his first novel.

Luke Sheehan was born and raised in Dublin. He has worked as an editor, writer
and teacher in Ireland, France, Lebanon and China. He currently resides in
Shanghai.

Lynn McGrane currently works in Dublin as an arts education officer.