Barbara A. Morton is published in national and international journals and previously in The Stinging Fly. She is the recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Writers’ Bursary, and in 2011 was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. A postgraduate of Queen’s University Belfast, she is preparing her first collection of poetry for publication.

Bartholomew Ryan is a twenty-eight-year-old writer and actor. A graduate of the Drama and Theatre studies programme in Trinity College Dublin, he lives for the moment in New York, where he has just had a reading of his first full-length play, a purgatorial farce entitled ‘A New York Evening’.

Belinda McKeon’s second novel is Tender (Picador). She is also the editor of A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, published by Tramp Press.

Ben Cartwright’s poetry appears in West Branch, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, and is forthcoming in The Pinch and Prick of the Spindle. His fiction appears in Crab Creek Review and Johnny America. Ben’s book After Our Departure won the Powder Horn Prize and was published by Sage Hill Press in 2016. He can be found online at benjamindcartwright.com

Bernadette Owens lives in Belfast where she studied creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University. She is currently working on her first novel. In 2004 she won the Northern Woman/Orange Short Story Prize.

Bernard Clarke is an award-winning broadcaster with RTÉ Lyric FM. He has also worked closely with Just Listen (National Sculpture Factory); curated listening posts for WIRED (Waterford) and produced radiophonic specialities for the European Broadcasting Union’s Ars Acustica group.

Bernard Kennedy was born in Dublin. He has published two previous collections, and a third is due shortly. His work has also appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies.

Bernard O’Donoghue’s last collection of poetry, Gunpowder (Chatto), won the Whitbread Prize. His next collection, Here Nor There, will be published by Chatto in January 1999.

Bernard Quiriny is a young Belgian author writing in French. He has published three short story collections and a novel and has received many literary prizes including the Victor Rossel Prize and the Marcel Thiry Prize. He writes for arts and literature magazines, including the Magazine Littéraire and Chronic’Art, of which he is the books editor. He lectures in Law in the Université de Haute Bourgogne.

Bernice M. Murphy is the director of the MPhil in Popular Literature at Trinity
College Dublin. She has published many books and articles on topics related to
horror film and fiction.

Bernice McNaulty teaches English as a foreign, sometimes very foreign, language in Amsterdam and could win prizes for keeping a conversation going about monkeys, tidal waves, Vermeer, if she was the Queen she would…

Bernie Kenny holds an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). Her published books are Poulnabrone (2002), Progeny (2004), and translations from the Irish of Gregóir Ó Dúill, Gone to Earth (2005).

Billy Ramsell’s most recent collection of poetry, ‘The Architect’s Dream of Winter’, appeared in 2013. Over the years he has published poems, articles and translations in ‘The Stinging Fly’ and was a guest editor for Issue 32 of the magazine.

Annemarie Neary’s novels include The Orphans (2017) and Siren (2016), both from Hutchinson/Windmill. Her short fiction awards include the Michael McLaverty, Bryan MacMahon & Columbia Journal prizes. Born in Ireland, Annemarie now lives in London.

Annick MacAskill is a Canadian poet whose writing has appeared in Room, Plenitude, Best Canadian Poetry, Grain, Arc, and others. Her debut collection, No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second collection will be published by Gaspereau Press in spring 2020.

Annie Deppe was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and now lives in County Donegal. Her first book of poems Sitting In The Sky was published by Summer Palace Press in 2003.

Anouska Huggins lives in North East England, where she is working on a novel and experimenting with stories in different forms.

Anthony Hegarty is a poet and ecopsychologist who lives in County Galway. He has poetry in Burning Bush 2. He won the Culture Night Poetry Competition at Kenny’s Bookshop and was a winner in The Poetry Ireland/Trócaire Competition in 2014. www.hugofgaia.com

Anthony Keating has had his poetry published in magazines and journals in Ireland, England and the USA. He was a finalist in the 1999 Sunday Tribune/Hennessy New Irish Writing Competition.

Antonia Hart’s work has appeared in the anthologies These Are Our Lives, Incorrigibly Plural and Momaya Annual Review. She has recently completed an MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin, and is a regular contributor to The Gloss magazine.

Aoife Comey studied English at Trinity College and currently lives in London. ‘Employment’ is her first published short story.

Aoife Lyall is an Irish poet living in the Scottish Highlands. Shortlisted for both the Hennessy New Writing Awards and the Patrician Press Poetry Prize in 2016, she is currently writing her first collection.

Arlene Ang is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being a collaborative work with Valerie Fox, Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon (Texture Press, 2008). She serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. She lives in Spinea, Italy. (www.leafscape.org)

Armel Dagorn now lives back in France, after spending most of his twenties in Ireland. His stories have appeared in magazines such as Tin House online, Southword, 3:AM Magazine and Unthology, and his collection, Eternal Dreamers of Greener Grass, will be published in 2018 by The Penny Dreadful Press.

Art Murphy is from Newry where he works as a teacher. His work will be featured as part of the Italics Press Introductions Series.

Arthur McMaster is a college teacher in Florida where he serves as the faculty adviser to the college poetry club. He has published two chapbooks and he visited Ireland last September.

Anna Crowe is a Scottish poet who works as a translator and creative-writing tutor. Her books include Punk with Dulcimer (2006) and Figure in a Landscape (2010).

Anna Walsh is an Irish writer and editor living in Glasgow. Their poetry and prose have been published by Extra Teeth, The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine and others. Their work has been featured in art exhibitions and adapted for the stage, most recently for Mullingar Pride’s Queer Stories. They are currently finishing their debut story collection and co-editing the first Irish trans anthology, forthcoming later this year.