James Wilkes’ poetry and prose has recently appeared in Datableed, The Wire, gorse, The White Review, Minor Literatures and Poetry Wales. He is working on a collection of speculative fictions, stories and fragments that respond to the archives of the Peckham Experiment, an interwar health centre in South London.

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her books include a novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, a short-story collection, Children’s Children. and a micro-fiction collection, Postcard Stories. Her second novel, The Fire Starters, was published by Doubleday in 2019. It won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019.

Jana Prikryl’s first book of poems, The After Party, was published in 2016. She writes essays on photography and film for The Nation and The New York Review of Books, where she works as a senior editor.

Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in County Roscommon and now lives in Wicklow. She has had poems published in various magazines and has won a number of prizes. In 2009 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series and was awarded an arts bursary by Wicklow County Council. She is currently studying for an MPhil in Writing with the University of Glamorgan, Wales.

Jane Robinson lives in Dublin. Her poems have been published in The Level
Crossing, The Interpreter’s House, Abridged, Southword, Magma and Poetry Ireland Review, and awarded the Strokestown and Red Line Poetry Prize.

Jane Williams is an Australian writer and the author of two collections of poetry, Outside Temple Boundaries (1998) and The Last Tourist (2006), both from Five Islands Press. Samples of her work can be found at www.janewilliams.wordpress.com.

Hugo Kelly has won many prizes for his short fiction and has twice been nominated for a Hennessy New Writing Award. He has been published in several journals and anthologies and his short stories have been broadcast on BBC and RTE Radio. He works as a librarian in NUI Galway.

Iain Twiddy grew up in eastern England, and studied literature at university. He has written two critical studies of contemporary poetry

Ian Maleney is a writer from Offaly.

Ian Parks was born in 1 959 and lives in Yorkshire. His latest collection is The Angel of the North. Recent poems have appeared in Poetry Review and The Observer.

Ian Shine’s short stories have appeared in publications including Scraps and The Fiction Desk anthology, Because of What Happened, and have been shortlisted for The Fiction Desk’s flash fiction competition 2013 and the Stork Press mini short story competition.

Idra Novey is the author of the forthcoming Exit, Civilian, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2011 National Poetry Series, and The Next Country, included in Virginia Quarterly Review’s list of Best Poetry Books of 2008. Her recent translations include the selected poems of Manoel de Barros and a retranslation of Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions, 2012). She directs the literary translation program in Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Iggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College. He has published two poetry collections with Dedalus Press. His latest book, A Mystic Dream of 4 (Quaternia Press 2013), is a poetic biography of William Rowan Hamilton.

Ilyse Kusnetz is the author of Small Hours, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry
from Truman State University Press. She teaches at Valencia College and lives in
Orlando with her husband, the poet and memoirist Brian Turner.

Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Austria in 1926 and is best known for the poems collected in Die gestundete Zeit (1953) and Anrufung des Groflen Baren
(1956). She provided the libretti for a number of musical projects, wrote and produced radio plays, two collections of short stories and what was realised of a planned trilogy of novels, Todesarten. She died in 1973.

Ingemar Leckius was born in Sweden in 1928. He has won several prestigious poetry awards. In 2000 Dedalus will publish his 1987 book Vid Terebint Trädet in translation by John F. Deane under the English title Light from Light.

Irene Rose Ledger was born in England and emigrated to New Zealand as a child. She holds an MA in Gender and Irish Writing from UCD. She has been shortlisted for a Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, a Francis Mac Manus Award and the Mitchelstown International Short Story Award.

Ivan Robertson was born in New York and grew up in Kentucky, New Jersey and Illinois. He now lives in Dublin with his wife Catherine.

Ivy Alvarez received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (USA) and a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship (UK) in 2005. Her poem here appears in Mortal (Red Morning Press, 2006).

Jessica Gaitán Johannesson grew up between Sweden, Colombia, and Ecuador. She’s a bookseller and an activist working for climate justice, and lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, How We Are Translated, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.

J. Roycroft’s work has appeared in The SHOp, Flaming Arrows, and The Burning Bush 2, amongst others. Educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, he lives with his wife and two children in Dublin. He is currently at work on the companion novels, ‘The Imitation Game’ and ‘In Fiction’.

Jacinta Mulders’s writing has been published widely, including, most recently in The Believer. She completed her MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. She currently lives in Bandar Seri Begawen, Brunei.

Jack Harte has published three collections of short stories, the latest being From Under Gogol’s Nose, and two novels, Reflections in a Tar-Barrel, and In the wake of the Bagger which was chosen by Des Kenny as one of his ‘101 Irish Books you Must Read’. More information on
www.jackharte.com.

James B.L. Hollands was born in London but now lives at the other end of the
world with his partner and his puppy, both of whom he loves very much.

James Cummins is a poet and critic based in Cork. His books include speaking off centre, Warbler, Origins of Process and FLASH/BANG. He co-organises the SoundEye Poetry Festival and occasionally blogs at returntodefault.wordpress.com

Grace Wells was our Featured Poet in Issue 10 Volume Two, Summer 2008. Her debut collection, When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things (Dedalus Press, 2010), won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award and was shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award.

Grace Wilentz is a poet based in The Liberties in Dublin. Her first collection, ‘The Limit of Light’ (The Gallery Press), was named one of the best books of 2020 in ‘The Irish Examiner’. She is the recipient of a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council.

Graham Allen is Professor in English at UCC. His collections, The One That Got Away (2014) and The Madhouse System (2016), along with his epoem, Holes, are published by New Binary Press. A new collection, No Rainbows Here, will be published by Salmon in 2020.

Grahame Williams was born in County Down and now lives and works in London. In 2014-15 he won a place as a fiction writer on the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme.