Christine Valters Paintner is an American writer living in Galway. Her poems have been published in journals including The Galway Review, Boyne Berries, Headstuff, Skylight 47, Crannóg, and North West Words. Her first collection, Dreaming of Stones, is forthcoming.

Christodoulos Makris is “one of Ireland’s leading contemporary explorers of experimental poetics” (The RTÉ Poetry Programme) and a Poetry Ireland ‘Rising Generation’ poet. His second book The Architecture of Chance (Wurm Press, 2015) was selected as a poetry book of the year by RTÉ Arena and 3:AM Magazine. He is co-curator of the multidisciplinary series Phonica, and the poetry editor of gorse.
http://yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/

Christopher Doda is a poet, editor and critic living in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Aesthetics Lesson and Among Ruins. He is the Series Editor for the annual Best Canadian Essays. His poems in this issue are from his manuscript in progress, a book of glosas based on hard rock and heavy metal lyrics, to be titled Glutton for Punishment.

Christopher Locke was born in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1968. His poems and prose have appeared in The Literary Review, Poetry, West Branch, Exquisite Corpse, and The Sun. He has published three collections of poetry, including Slipping Under Diamond Light (Clamp Down Press, 2002).

Christopher Reid exhibits this work in various forms including artist’s books, as text pieces, and in large-scale photographs. These are exhibited in galleries and as public art pieces. He also writes fiction which has been published in many magazines.

Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published two collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (Ellinika Grammata, 2003) and Something Will Happen, You’ll See (Polis, 2010), which won the prestigious Best Short Story Collection State Award and was the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. Short stories from the book have been featured in Flammarion’s literary magazine, L’ Atelier du Roman, and New-York-based online translation venue, InTranslation, among others. Ikonomou’s latest short story, ‘Like People Who Haven’t Laughed in Years’ was published in issue 27 of Hamish Hamilton’s online literary magazine, Five Dials. Something Will Happen, You’ll See has been translated into Italian (Editori Riuniti, 2012) and German (C.H. Beck, 2013).

Christy Edwall is currently completing a doctorate in English Literature at New College, Oxford. She has been published in Granta and in the Times Literary Supplement.

Chuck Kruger won the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Competition in 2003 and the The Dubliner Short Story Contest and the Shinrone Poetry Festival Competition in 2002. His books include Cape Clear Island Magic and Flotsam & Jetsam. Website: http://indigo.ie/-ckstory.

Ciaran Berry grew up in Connemara and Donegal. He has lived in three of the five boroughs of New York. His first book, The Sphere of Birds, was published by The Gallery Press in 2008 and won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. He is currently working on his second full-length volume, The Dead Zoo.

Ciarán O’Rourke was born in 1991 and is based in Dublin. He was winner of
the Lena Maguire/Cúirt New Irish Writing Award 2009 and his pocket-pamphlet
Some Poems was issued as a Moth Edition (2011).

Catherine Finn has an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. Her fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, Leave Us Some Unreality, and broadcast on RTE Radio 1. She was awarded an Arts Council bursary in 2011.

Catherine Foley was born in Waterford. She works as a journalist with The Irish Times and has had a number of her short stories published. These are her first published poems.

Catherine Higgins-Moore holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree from Trinity College Dublin. She has been shortlisted for the Asham Award, Cambridge University’s Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the HG Wells Grand Prize. She is editor of The Irish Literary Review.

Catherine Murphy lives on the very westerly edge of County Clare with her partner, Roger, and a fat Labrador called Harry. Originally trained in classical music, she has published short stories and poems in Ireland, the UK and the US. She is currently writing a novel about shipwrecks and lies.

Catherine Noonan was born in Dublin in 1978. In 2005 she completed an M Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently working on her first collection, Dead Pirates.

Catherine Phil MacCarthy’s most recent collection Suntrap, was published by Blackstaff Press (2007). Her next, Invisible Threshold, is due for publication. She won the Fish International Poetry Prize 2010 and is a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. Recent poems have appeared in New Hibernia Review (Fall, 2010) and Opening Eyes (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Cathy Sweeney’s short story collection ‘Modern Times’ was published by The Stinging Fly Press and W&N in 2020.

Cathy Thomas lives in London. She holds an MA in creative writing and won an Arvon/ Jerwood Mentorship for playwriting. Her stories have been placed in competitions and published in Banshee. She is currently working on a short-story collection.

Catrina Davies was born in Snowdonia and grew up in Cornwall. She lives, writes, surfs and sings in a shed near Land’s End. Her first book, The Ribbons are for Fearlessness, was published in 2014. Published here is an extract from her forthcoming second book, Why I Live in a Shed.

Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. She edited Dublin 1911 (2011), and she is an editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, the latest volume of which, 1948-51, was published in November 2015. She is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Limerick and Chairperson of the Irish Theatre Institute.

Celeste Augé lives in Galway. Her poems have been published in a variety of British and Irish literary journals.

Charlotte Buckley completed a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin in 2013. Since then she has been a recipient of the Basil Bunting Poetry Award (2013), highly commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (2014) and won the Jane Martin Poetry Prize (2015). Her poems have been published in Ambit, The Rialto, Icarus, The New Writer, Cadaverine and ‘Slow Things’, an anthology by The Emma Press.

Cherry Smyth has published two collections with Lagan Press and is Poetry Editor of Brand Literary Magazine. See more at cherrysmyth.com

Cheryl Donahue is a writer and website developer who began writing poems a few years ago, and has been published in The Stinging Fly and WOW!. She obtained a Masters in Interactive Media from University College Cork last year, and is trying to tell stories via new media with the skills acquired. She recently returned to the US after fifteen years in Ireland, and now lives in Philadelphia.

Chetna Maroo lives in London. Her stories have been published in the Paris Review, the Stinging Fly, and the Dublin Review, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She was the recipient of the 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, Western Lane, will be published in spring 2023.

Caitlín Nic Íomhair is an aspiring poet and academic from Co. Down. She spends her days speaking too fast and reading more poetry than she writes in Trinity College, Dublin.

Caitríona Ní Chléirchín is an Irish-language poet, critic and lecturer originally from Gortmoney, Emyvale in Co. Monaghan. Her début collection Crithloinnir won the Oireachtas Prize for New Writers in 2010. An Bhrídeach Sí won the Michael Hartnett Prize 2015. She has published poetry in Comhar, Irish Pages, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Feasta, Blaiseadh Pinn, The SHOp, An t-Ultach and An Guth. Articles and reviews have been published in The Irish Times, Comhar, and Taighde agus Teagasc and others. She is lectures at St. Patrick’s College DCU.

Caitríona O’Reilly’s first collection, The Nowhere Birds, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2001. A second volume is forthcoming. She is currently writer in residence with IADT and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

Cal Doyle was our Featured Poet in Issue 30. More recently his work has appeared in gorse and POETRY. He lives in Cork.