John Wall Barger’s poems have appeared in The SHOp, The Moth, The Best Canadian Poetry, and The Montreal Prize’s Global Poetry Anthology. His third collection, The Book of Festus, is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press in spring 2015.

John Yarbrough is currently incarcerated in a Texas prison. He is working on his master’s degree in literature through the University of Houston-Clear Lake. His work has been published in numerous magazines and journals. His poetry chapbook, Reasons, was recently published by Ginninderra Press in Australia.

Jon Boilard has been living and writing in San Francisco since 1986. His stories have been widely published in literary journals. One was nominated for a Pushcart, another won the Sean O’Faolain Award and several others have earned individual small press honours. (www.jonboilard.com)

Jonathan C. Creasy is a writer, filmmaker, musician and publisher based in Dublin. He is author of ‘The Black Mountain Letters’ (Dalkey Archive Press), editor of the anthology ‘Black Mountain Poems’ (New Directions), and director of the forthcoming documentary, ‘The Blue Shroud’. He is founder of New Dublin Press and co-director of the production company Dreamsong Films. www.jcreasy.com

Jonathan Edwards’s first collection of poems, My Family and Other Superheroes, will appear from Seren in 2014.

Jonathan Greenhause won the 2015 Editor’s Choice Poetry Award from Kind of
a Hurricane Press and his poems have appeared in LitMag, The Moth, The Poetry
Bus, and Southword Journal.

Jonathan Pinnock’s novel Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens was published in 2011 and his short story collection Dot Dash was published in 2012. He is currently figuring out what to write next. He blogs at www.jonathanpinnock.com and tweets as @jonpinnock.

Jordi Pujol Nadal was born in Barcelona and grew up in the coastal town of Badalona. He works as a language promoter at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech and is also a music critic and co-artistic director of a roots-music festival called Blues & Ritmes. He has published two collections of poetry: Errors de càlcul (2011) and Greatest Hits (2013).

Joseph Allen has published six collections of poetry, most recently, ‘Clabber Street Blues’, Greenwich Exchange Publishing, 2016.

Joseph Gormley was born and raised in Dublin. He now lives in Berlin where he works as a script writer/editor and translator in the film industry. He has written documentary film scripts and has just had his first feature film script accepted. ‘Randomer’ is his first published short story.

Joseph Hoban was born in County Wicklow and studied at NUI Maynooth and UCD. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Icarus, The Shop and The Stinging Fly. It has also been broadcast on the RTE poetry programme ‘The Darkness Echoing.’

Joseph Horgan was born in Birmingham, England, to Irish parents. Previously shortlisted for a Hennessy Award and a past winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award, his first collection, Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea, was published by Doghouse in 2008. The Song at your Backdoor, a book about place and landscape, was published by Collins Press in 2010.

Joseph O’Connor has published six novels: Cowboys and Indians, Desperadoes, The Salesman, The Salesman, Star of the Sea, and Redemption Falls.

Joseph Woods is Director of Poetry Ireland. He has lived in Japan and travelled for long periods in Asia and Latin America. His two collections are published by the Worple Press, UK. He co-edited Our Shared Japan (Dedalus Press, 2007), an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry concerning Japan.

Judith Mok was born in Holland and has published three books of poetry and three novels. She lives in Dublin and has been writing in English for the past seven years.

Julia Calver lives in London. Recent work has been published in Infundibulum: stories of non-ordinary reality by women, Makhzin, 3:AM and The Arrow Maker.

Julia Jay Fairlie escaped to West Cork five years ago and found herself starting to write. She thinks it must be something
in the water.

BIO: Julian Gough’s next novel, Connect, will be published by Picador (UK), and Doubleday (US), sometime in 2018. Or 2019. Who knows. Books are hard. His next children’s book (and his masterpiece), Rabbit & Bear: Attack of the Snack, will be published by Hodder Children’s Books in early 2018. The first Rabbit & Bear book, Rabbit’s Bad Habits, was shortlisted for an Irish Book of the Year Award in 2016, and has been translated into 15 languages, including Nepalese. Nepalese! He has written many short stories, three novels, a book of poetry, two radio plays and a stage play. In the process of doing so, he has won the BBC National Short Story Award, and been shortlisted for a Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award, the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award, and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (twice). He also wrote the weird and wordy ending to the most successful computer game of all time, Minecraft. He has taught creative writing in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Limerick (just up the road from his parents), and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (ranked the #1 university in Asia), where he is currently International Writer in Residence. He has a website, but it’s covered in weeds because he is lazy. He is @juliangough on Twitter. Feel free to say hi.

Julie Morrissy is a poet living in her native Dublin after spending many years in North America. Morrissy has performed at international festivals and is published widely in Ireland, the UK, Canada and the US. Her debut pamphlet I Am Where is available from Eyewear Press and from www.juliemorrissy.com

June Caldwell is a writer of fiction, essays, biography, poetry, and journalism. Her collection of short stories Room Little Darker was published in 2017 by New Island Books and 2018 by Head of Zeus. Her debut novel Little Town Moone is forthcoming from John Murray. She is a prize winner of The Moth Short Story Prize.

John Kelly is from County Fermanagh. His first collection of poetry, ‘Notions’, was published by Dedalus Press in 2018.

John Kenny is John McGahern Lecturer in Creative Writing at NUI Galway where he is director of the BA with Creative Writing. He is author of ‘John Banville’ (Irish Academic Press, 2009) and editor of ‘The John McGahern Yearbook’. He is working on a collection of stories and a novel.

John McAuliffe grew up in Listowel, County Kerry. He lives in Manchester where he co-directs the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing. He has published two books with The Gallery Press, A Better Life (2002) and Next Door (2007).

John McKernan grew up in Nebraska and taught for 41 years at Marshall University. He lives— mostly—in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His latest book is ‘Resurrection of the Dust’.

John North was born in the north of England in 1990. His verse can be found
in many magazines. He was recently selected for The Best British Poetry 2014
anthology (Salt).

John O’Donnell has won various awards for poetry and has also published two poetry collections. His first published short story, ‘Promise’, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Awards in 2010.

John O’Malley is from Limerick City. He helped Bayside Writers publish two anthologies under the Migrating Minds banner. He hopes to eventually find a wider readership with his own slim volume.

John O’Regan is originally from Waterford. Four of his plays have been staged in Galway, including ‘The Painting Lesson’ and ‘Septuagenarians’ (currently being adapted for radio). A regular contributor to Galway Arts Centre’s publication West 47, when not writing, he is employed at the Galway Citizen’s Information Centre or engaged in the, so far, uneven struggle for centre stage with his four-year-old daughter Alicia.