Lucy Sweeney Byrne is a short story writer and essayist. She has had her work published in various literary magazines, including Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and Grist Journal. Lucy is currently based in Dublin.

Liam Cleary lives in Germany. His poems have been published widely, and in 1999 he published Echoes, a collection of short stories for teenagers.

Liam Guilar currently lives in Australia. His most recent collection of poems, Lady Godiva and Me, is published by Nine Arches Press (Ninearchespress.com) and was launched in Coventry in December 2008.

Liam Ó Muirthile is a Cork-born writer now living in Dublin. His poetry is collected in Dialann Bothair (1992, gallery), Walking Time agus Dánta eile (2000, Cló iar Chonnachta), An Seileitleán agus véarsaí seilí eile (2004, Cois Life Teoranta,); and Sanas (2007, Cois Life). He also wrote the collection Tine Chnámh (1984, sáorséal Ó Marcaigh), which was awarded the irish-American Cultural Institute Prize and produced in the Project Theatre, Dublin, in 1993. He won the Duais chuimhneacháin Sheáin Uí Éogeartaigh for his novel Ar Bhruach na Laoi (1995, Comhar). He is a member of Aosdána.

Lily Akerman lives in Dublin. She came from New York on a Fulbright to write lyrics,and hasn’t bought a return flight.

Linda McCarriston has published two award-winning collections in the United States: Talking Soft Dutch (1984) and Eva Mary (1991). Her third collection is due from Salmon next year.

Linda Satchwell lives in Dublin via California and Oregon. Writing grants include Panavision (screenplay), Wurlitzer (short fiction), and Vogelstein (poetry). She works at the Irish Film Archive.

Lindsay Turner is the author of ‘Songs & Ballads’ (Prelude, 2018) and the translator of several books of contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

Lisa McInerney is the editor of The Stinging Fly magazine. She is the author of three novels, The Glorious Heresies, The Blood Miracles, and The Rules of Revelation, and has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the RSL Encore Award. Her work has featured in The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Granta, The Guardian, Le Monde, Vogue CS, The Irish Times, BBC Radio 4, and numerous anthologies. She is published in 11 languages.

Lisa Owens is a novelist and screenwriter. Her debut novel, ‘Not Working’, was published by Picador in 2016 and adapted for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. She lives in London.

Lisa Steppe was born in Germany and moved to Ireland in 1984. She began writing in English in 1994 and has since won a number of awards for her fiction and poetry.

Livia Viitol’s latest volume is Läti pääsuke (2002), from which these poems are taken. In recent years she has been translating Latvian poetry into Estonian, and in her capacity as Deputy Director of the Vilde and Tammsaare Museum in Tallinn has done research into the emigration of Estonians to the Crimea at the end of the 19th century. She is freelance as of May 2005.

Liz Arnett was born in Miami and lived in Galway for several years. Now she’s in San Francisco, teaching inner city kids, and hoping to finish a collection of short stories.

Liz Gallagher was our Featured Poet in Issue 11. Prizes and placings include Listowel Single Poem, ¡Yeats Poetry, and Gregory O’ Donoghue, among others. A version of ‘That Is All’—her first published story—was a runner-up in the 2015 Penguin Ireland/RTÉ Guide Short Story Competition.

Liz McSkeane’s collection Snow at the Opera House was published by New Island Books in 2002. She won the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 1999.

Liza Costello lives in Dublin. Her writing has been published in magazines and shortlisted for a couple of national short story awards. In 2011, she won the Dromineer Literary Festival poetry competition. Her novella, Retreat, is forthcoming as a Kindle Single.

Laura Ann Caffrey is originally from Kildare and is studying English and German at NUI Galway. She is taking this year to complete part of her studies in Berlin. Laura has previously been published in Crannóg magazine.

Laura Morgan’s stories are published in the UK, Ireland (The Moth), and Vietnam. In 2017, she won the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer Award. She blogs at aremoteview. wordpress.com and is a Scottish Review of Books’ Emerging Critic.

Laura Treacy Bentley is a poet from West Virginia. Her work has been published in Ireland (Poetry Ireland Review and The Stinging Fly) and in the United States (Art Times, Controlled Bum, among many others). She wrote a review of Dharmakaya by Paula Meehan for the
Local Ireland web site. In the Untangling, her first collection, will be published by Salmon.

Lauren Lawler is a law librarian and lives in Portmarnock, County Dublin. She studied in UCD and holds an MA in Poetry Studies from the Mater Dei Institute. This is her first publication.

Laurence O’Dwyer is a graduate of University College Cork and holds a PhD in paradigms of memory formation from Trinity College Dublin. In 2016 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. He has also won a Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and been short-listed for the Bridport Prize for Poetry. His brain imaging research in autism and Alzheimer’s disease has been published in a range of academic journals and his science journalism appears in The Guardian and the Irish Medical Times.

Léan Ní Chuilleanáin writes fiction and poetry. A graduate of Trinity’s M Phil in Creative Writing, she has published a handful of poems and stories. Her first novel creeps towards completion.

Leana Malancioiu was born in 1940. Of her collection, Climbing the Mountain, a critic wrote: ‘No book of poetry published in the Communist era contained a clearer political protest, without stylistic distraction… or metaphorical caution.’ A collection of her poems, After the Raising of Lazarus, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, was published by Southword Editions in 2005.

Leanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983 and comes from the Beara Peninsula in County Cork. She has published two collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books, Waiting for My Clothes (2004) and Cailleach; The Hag of Beara (2009). She received the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary in 2009, and in 2010 was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Leeanne Quinn’s debut collection of poetry, Before You, was published in 2012 by Dedalus Press, and was highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013. She was the recipient of an Arts Council Bursary Award in 2012 and 2018. Her second collection is forthcoming with Dedalus Press in 2020.

Leo Bordeianu was born in 1955 and has published two collections: More Love Than Hate ( 1989) and The Palpability of Margins ( 1993 ).

Leona Lee Cully is from Westmeath, and now lives in Dublin. She has had several stories published in The Stinging Fly, and had a Flash Fiction story broadcast on RTE Radio One’s Arena programme.

Leontia Flynn’s first book, These Days, won the Forward Prize for best first collection. She has also won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a major Individual Artist’s Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her new collection, Profit and Loss, is due in September.

Leopold O’Shea is the winner of the 2023 Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize.