John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, The Tangerine, Granta, and Winter Papers. His debut collection of short stories, Pure Gold, is published by 4th Estate.

John Porter is now in Gloucestershire, England, after living in Moscow and London. He has degrees in Russian and Law and when not juggling his two small sons he writes poems. His work had appeared in The Recusant and Streetcake.

John Saul was born in Liverpool. His 2007 collection of short stories, Call It Tender (Salt Modern Fiction), met praise in The Times and in Time Out. A further collection, The Most Serene Republic: love stories from cities, was published by Salt in May this year.

John Siberry was born Sligo and now lives and works in Dun Laoghaire. His writing has previously been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Force 10, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere.

John Christopher is a writer from Dublin currently living in London. He is working on a collection of short stories.

John W. Sexton’s sixth collection, Futures Pass, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. His poem The Green Owl was awarded the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007 for best single poem, and in that same year he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.

John Wakeman founded The Shop: A Magazine of Poetry, which he co-edits with his wife, Hilary. A second collection, A Sea Family, is due from Bradshaw Books later this year.

Jillian Kring graduated with her M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin in 2015. She currently lives in Quincy, Massachusetts with her husband where she is writing a book and pursuing a career in medicine.

Jim Maguire has been writing poetry since 1999 when he took an MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. His poems have appeared widely in periodicals and won a number of prizes, most recently the Brendan Kennelly Award. He lives in Wexford where he works as a tutor on various community arts and adult education programmes.

Jim’s first published story, Carson’s Trail, appeared in the Stinging Fly anthology Let’s Be Alone Together. Since then his stories have appeared in the Stinging Fly journal, the Dublin Review and the University of Plymouth’s literary organ, Short Fiction.

Jimmy Cummins teaches English in a secondary school in East London. He also writes poems. He used to do a lot more but he can still be found on twitter @defaultpoetry

Jimmy Murphy is a playwright. His most recent work, Of This Brave Time, was premiered by the Abbey Theatre as the opening play of their Waking The Nation programme and will tour the UK in March.

Jinx Lennon, part punk-folk-poet-troubadour, part gospel-music-energy-preacher, comes from a place that was traditionally known as a hotbed of storytelling along the County Louth/Armagh border. His latest album is called ‘Hungry Bastard Hibernia’. www.jinxlennon.com

JL Bogenschneider is a writer of short fiction, with work published in ‘Cosmonauts Avenue’, ‘The Interpreter’s House’, ‘Necessary Fiction’, ‘PANK’ and ‘Ambit’. Their chapbook ‘Fears for the Near Future’, written under the name C.S. Mierscheid, is available from Neon Books.

Jo Burns was born in Northern Ireland and lives in Germany. Jo’s poetry has been published most recently in Banshee, Oxford Poetry, Southword and is forthcoming in Popshots, The Tangerine and Magma. Her first collection White Horses will be published in 2018 by Turas Press.

Jo Holmwood is based in County Leitrim. In 2016 she received a highly commended award from the Bridport Prize and was shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize. She also writes plays, which she has directed and produced for audiences in Dublin, Galway and Leitrim.

Jo Slade is the author of five collections of poetry and a chapbook of poems, The Artist’s Room (Pighog Press, Brighton, 2010). Her most recent collection, The Painter’s House, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2013.

Joan Margarit first published poetry in Spanish, in 1963 and 1965, but after a silence of ten years switched to writing and publishing in Catalan, quickly establishing his reputation as a leading poet in that language. He has published many collections in Catalan and has translated most of his own books into Spanish. Tugs in the Fog (Bloodaxe, 2006), translated by Anna Crowe, is the first translation into
English of his Catalan poetry. The poems published here are from his collection Strangely Happy which will be published by Blooodaxe next year.

Joan Win Brennan recently moved to Deal in Kent from London. She has worked as an illustrator, education editor, further education tutor and university librarian. She has been shortlisted for many prizes and awards, including the Bridport, Fish, V.S. Pritchett, and Willesden Herald. The Bean Farm was a finalist in the Exeter Novel Prize.

Joe Dresner was born in Sunderland in 1987 and currently lives and works in London. He has work published or forthcoming in Poetry Review, Ambit, Stand and The SHOp.

Joel Thomas Hynes was born and raised in Calvert, Newfoundland. His debut novel, ‘Down to the Dirt’, won the Percy Janes First Novel Award and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

John Boyne was born in Dublin in 1971. He is the author of five novels, including the international bestseller The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. It is currently being adapted into a Miramax feature film for release in 2007. His novels are published in twenty-eight languages.

John Ennis’s poetry was substantially represented in the Harvard Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry (2010). His work has also appeared in Poetry Ireland Review and in Riddle Fence.

John F Deane ‘s latest collection of poetry is “Semibreve” (Carcanet 2015); and his faith and poetry memoir “Give Dust a Tongue” was published in 2015 by Columba Press, Dublin. He was appointed the Teilhard de Chardin fellow in Catholic Studies at the Loyola University Chicago, for the fall semester of 2016. A member of Aosdana, he is the founder of Poetry Ireland and “The Poetry Ireland Review”

John Harris completed an MPhil in Creative Writing in Trinity College in 2014. His writing has appeared in Banshee and the 2015 Fish Anthology. His entry for the 2015 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award was highly commended.

Janet Shepperson lives in Belfast. Her poetry collections are The Aphrodite Stone (Salmon Poetry, 1995) and Eve Complains to God (Lagan Press, 2004). She has also published short stories, two of which were shortlisted for Hennessy Awards. A novel, ‘Vinny’s Wilderness’, was published by Liberties Press in 2016.

Jennifer Down was born in 1990. Her debut novel, Our Magic Hour, was published by Text Publishing in early 2016. Her collection of stories, Pulse Points, will appear in August 2017. She lives in Melbourne.

Jean O’Brien‘s latest collection Merman (Salmon Poetry 2012) was named for her poem that won the 2010 Arvon International poetry award. She holds an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin and tutors creative writing in various schools and institutions.