Lia Mills writes novels, short stories and literary non-fiction. Her most recent novel, Fallen, was the Two Cities One Book festival selection for 2016 (Dublin and Belfast).

Liam Aungier has been published in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review and previously in The Stinging Fly. His book, Apples in Winter, is published by Doghouse.

Kimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart, indiana, and now lives in Dublin. Her chapbook Spinning Cities is published by Wurm press (2011). she was the featured poet in our summer 2010 issue. Her work has also appeared in Eyewear, nthposition, and The Cream City Review. she is an assistant editor of Rowboat, a new magazine dedicated to poetry in translation.

Kit Fan is a novelist, poet, and critic. His second poetry collection, ‘As Slow As Possible’ was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of ‘The Irish Times’’ Books of the Year. ‘Diamond Hill’, his debut novel about Hong Kong, is published by Dialogue Books and World Editions in 2021.

Kit Fryatt was born in Iran in 1978, grew up in Singapore, Turkey and England, and moved to
Ireland in 1999. She runs Wurm im apfel and Wurm Press: wurmimapfel.net.

Knut Ødegård was born in Molde, Norway in 1945. One of the best known of contemporary Norwegian poets, he has published more than ten collections of poetry and been translated into more than twenty languages. Dedalus Press published two previous titles in translation, Missa (2002) and Judas Iscariot and Other Poems (2005) and will publish his Selected Poems later this year.

Knute Skinner lives in Clare. His most recent collection, Fifty Years: Poems 1957–2007, from Salmon Poetry (2007), contains new poems alongside work taken from thirteen previous books. His collection, The Other Shoe, won the 2004–2005 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award. A memoir, Help Me to a Getaway, was published by Salmon in March 2010. www.knuteskinner.com

Kobus Moolman is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has published seven collections of poetry and two collections of plays. He has won numerous awards for his writing and has also edited an anthology of poetry, prose and art by South African writers living with disabilities.In 2013 he was the Mellon Writer in Residence for three months at Rhodes University. His first collection of short stories, The Swimming Lesson, will be published this year.

Kristiina Ehin has published five volumes of poetry and a book of short stories in Estonia, where she has won a number of prizes. The Drums of Silence (Oleander Press 2007), selected poems translated by Ilmar Lehtpere, was recently awarded the Poetry Society Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. His translations of her work feature regularly in British and Irish literary magazines.

Krystyna Rawicz grew up in a Polish expatriate community in Birmingham and moved to Wicklow in her late twenties. She has four children and a business. In her tiny windows of time, she likes playing with words and paint.

Kurt Lanthaler was born in Bozen/Bolzano in 1960, a member of the 350,000-strong German-speaking minority in the Italian South Tyrol. He is best known for the cult Tschonnie Tschenett crime novel series (1993–2002) and as a translator of Italian fiction. Now living in Berlin with his Greek wife, Lanthaler brings an unusual slant to contemporary European fiction, balancing his somewhat complex identity as a member of a linguistic minority with a distinct cosmopolitanism, playing plots and characters across and between the German, Greek and Italian cultural worlds. Lanthaler’s work has been adapted for radio (‘Der Tote im Fels’ [‘The Body On the Crag’], WDR/ORF 2002) and cinema (‘Das Kettenkarussell’ [‘The Flying Chairs’], directed by Marco Antoniazzi in 2004). His most recent novel, Das Delta, the story of lives lived in the marshy plains of the Po Valley, was published in 2007.

Kusi Okamura grew up in Co. Wicklow. She received her BA at University College Dublin and worked in print and broadcast journalism for several years. She now lives in Dublin. This is her first published story.

Kyle C. Mellen’s stories appear in EPOCH, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Versal. A recipient of an Alaska Literary Award and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, he lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Kylie Grant’s fiction has won prizes and been published in a variety of places. She is currently working on a novel. She also works as a library assistant and finds an inordinate amount of pleasure in the shelving and tidying of books. @KylieGrant1

Lakshmi Gill is one of the two founding women members of the League of Canadian Poets and a member of the Writers Union of Canada. She has been published extensively and anthologized widely.

Lane Shipsey does ordinary work most of the year and writes part-time.

Lani O’ Hanlon is a dancer and movement therapist, author of Dancing the Rainbow (Mercier Press 2007) She has an MA from Lancaster University- her work has been published in Poetry (Chicago) Southword, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, The Moth, Skylight Poets, Mslexia, Anthologies; Small Lives (Poddle) Halleluiah for 50ft Women (Bloodaxe) and read on Sunday Miscellany

Lanre Otaiku was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where he grew up. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

Larry Beau is an Irish-based singer, composer and songwriter. He trained at Berkeley University, and has performed in both Ireland and the US for the past five years. His debut album, Peepshow Stars, was recently released to critical acclaim. www.larrybeau.com

Larry Deery was born in Dublin in 1961 and spent his early years as a child. He later went on to become an adult. This excerpt is from his as yet unpublished second novel, The Trip Up and The Slide Down. Larry is currently working on a third novel and hopes to have it published before he retires. As well as writing, Larry works in Dublin city centre as a cleaner and will probably do so until he dies, if it doesn’t kill him first.

Larry Stapleton’s poetry has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, About Place Journal, THE SHOp, Cyphers, The Stony Thursday Book and Crannóg, and is forthcoming in The North. He was included in Poetry Ireland Introductions in 2014.

Keith Payne is the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award winner for 2015-2016. His collection Broken Hill, (Lapwing Publications, 2015) was followed by Six Galician Poets, translations of contemporary Galician poetry, (Arc Publications, 2016). He is co-founder and co-director of POEMARIA International poetry festival, Vigo and director of the La Malinche Readings between Ireland and Galicia. keith.payne@mac.com

Keith Ridgway is a Dublin writer currently living in London. He is the author of four novels, Hawthorn And Child, Animals, The Parts and The Long Falling, and the short-story collection, Standard Time.

Kelly Creighton’s writing has featured in Long Story Short, Wordlegs, The Bohemyth, and other journals. Her poetry chapbook Three Primes was published by Lapwing in 2013. Kelly edits The Incubator and was awarded an artist’s grant by Arts Council NI.

Kerrie O’ Brien is writer from Dublin. Her debut collection Illuminate was published by Salmon Poetry in 2016 and was funded by a literature bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. She has won multiple awards for her work and has featured in The Irish Times, Sunday Miscellany, Hennessy New Irish Writing and Cyphers among others. She was shortlisted for the Penny Dreadful Novella Prize and is currently writing her first novel.

Kerry Hardie has published six collections of poetry, all with Gallery Press, the most recent of which is The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree (2012). She has also published two novels and is working on a third. Her Selected Poems was published by the Gallery Press (Ireland) and Bloodaxe (UK) in 2011.

Kevin Barry is the author of three novels and three collections of short stories, including the soon to be published That Old Country Music. He also writes plays and screenplays, and is co-editor and publisher of the annual arts anthology Winter Papers. He lives in County Sligo.

Kevin Cahill was born in Cork and graduated from University College Cork with a degree in Government Studies. He has completed his first volume of poems and is seeking a publisher. To date his poems have appeared in Edinburgh Review, The London Magazine, Agenda, Poetry Ireland Review and The Oxonian Review.

Kevin Curran’s latest novel, Youth, was published in June 2023 by the Lilliput Press. His other novels are Beatsploitation (2013) and Citizens (2016). He has published short fiction in The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine and various anthologies.

Kevin Doherty lives on the Inishowen Peninsula, Co Donegal, where he runs a Centra shop with his brother. His debut novel Penny Baps was published by John Murray Originals.