Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.

Anne Elvey is managing editor of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. Her recent publications include: Kin (2014) and This flesh that you know (2015). White on White is forthcoming from Cordite Books in 2017. Anne holds honorary appointments at University of Divinity and Monash University.

Anne Fitzgerald lives in County Dublin and is currently undertaking an M.A. in Creative Writing at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her first collection, Swimming Lessons, was published last year by Stonebridge Publications.

Formerly shortlisted for the Hennessey award, Anne Griffin’s work has been published in The Irish Times, The Honest Ulsterman, The Incubator and Bunker. Further work will shortly appear in The Ogham Stone and The Lonely Crowd.

Anne Haverty‘s collection, The Beauty Of The Moon (Chatto & Windus, 1999), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her most recent novel is The Free And Easy (Vintage, 2006). She is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.

Anne Mac Darby returned to writing in 1990. She writes poetry and short stories and has had work published in anthologies and magazines. She won first prize in the 1995 Syllables Poetry Competition.

Anne O’Connell has just recently moved to live in Cliffoney, Co. Sligo, where her mother and grandmother were born. She has been writing creatively among friends and mentors for several years.

Anne Ryland has published two collections of poetry. Autumnologist was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2006, and The Unmothering Class was selected by New Writing North for the Read Regional Campaign 2012.

Anne Tannam’s first collection Take This Life (WordOnTheStreet) was published in 2011 and her second collection Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon Poetry) is forthcoming in May 2017. Also a spoken word poet, she has performed at Electric Picnic and Lingo.

Anne Hayden is from Cork and lives in Dublin. Her short fiction has been published in The Incubator and The Irish Times where she was shortlisted for a 2017 Hennessy Literary Award.

Andrew Jamison was born in County Down in 1986 and was educated there, at Down High School, before studying at the universities of London and St Andrews. He has been selected to represent the UK in Morocco at the 2011 International Biennale of Young Artists and currently works for Teach First, teaching English in Bradford, at Dixons Allerton Academy.

Andrew Kelly was born in Dublin in 1966. He has written and presented two monologues for Theatre of Arcadia: Comes a Time (1993) and The Deaf Wife Show (1996).

Andrew Mayne heads an English Department in a secondary school in Manchester. He has written several textbooks, some critical writing and editions of plays. He started sending off his poems to magazines at the end of 1998; he has had work accepted by Staple, The London Magazine, Other Poetry and several other magazines.

Andrew McEneff is writing a PhD on Anna Kavan at University College Dublin. He would like to acknowledge the generous support of Irish Research Council of Ireland for funding his studies.

Andrew Meehan’s debut novel One Star Awake will be published by New Island Books in September 2017.

Andrew Slattery is an Australian poet. His poems have been widely published internationally. His awards include the Henry Kendall, Roland Robinsons and Arts Queensland Val Vallis Awards. He is mentored by poet Judith Beveridge and is currently preparing his first collection.

Andriana Ierodiaconou is Cypriot; her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies in Cyprus and abroad. A former foreign correspondent, she currently lives in Bordeaux with her husband and son.

Andy Young is the co-editor of Meena, a bilingual Arabic/English literary magazine (www.meenamag.com). She was a recipient of a Surdna Artist Fellowship which brought her to Egypt last summer.

Angela Bourke is the author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker (2004), The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (1999), and the Famine Folio, Voices Underfoot: Memory, Forgetting, and Oral Verbal Art (2016). She is joint editor of The Field Day Anthology vols iv & v: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (2002), an emeritus professor at UCD and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Angelique Tran Van Sang is a literary agent at Felicity Bryan Associates. She moved to the agency in 2021, after seven years as an editor at Bloomsbury, where she worked with authors such as Kamila Shamsie and Reni Eddo-Lodge, and published Jenny Zhang, Olivia Sudjic and Saba Sams, amongst others. At FBA, her authors include Amy Key, K Patrick and Clara Kumagai. Angelique was a guest judge for the inaugural Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize.

Ann P. Joyce lives in County Sligo. She has had poetry published in Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Force 1 0, Women’s Work, WP Monthly, Scripsit (USA) and others. She is working towards a first collection.

Alice Maher is recognised as one of Ireland’s leading visual artists. Her work involves many different media including painting, drawing, sculpture, print, photography and installation. Reservoir, Sketchbooks and Selected Works (Roads Publishing, 2014) brings together work from 1986 – 2012.

Alison Fisher has been a TV scriptwriter for many years. She has had a short story broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and in 2010 won the Bridport Prize.

Alison MacLeod has published two novels, The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels. Her story collection, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction, was published in 2007. In 2008, she was the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Olive Cook Award for Short Fiction. (www.alison-macleod.com)

Alison Wells lives in Bray. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Fish Prize and a Hennessy Award and has had work published in Crannóg, Metazen, UK Flash Fiction Day’s Scraps and RTÉ Arena’s New Planet Cabaret. Alison is working on a new novel inspired by her flash fiction ‘Eat!’. www.alisonwells.wordpress.com

Alistair Daniel has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has held the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. Two of his short stories are forthcoming in Stand magazine and the anthology And Now For Something Completely Different. He is currently finishing his first novel, which is funded by the Arts Council of England.

Alyn Fenn has been writing since 2005. She has had poems published in SHOp poetry magazine, Acumen, Stony Thursday, and Borderlines. She has been shortlisted for and won a number of short story competitions including the People’s College 2006-07, Wicklow Writers 2007, and the 2007 William Trevor Short Story competition.

Amanda Bell’s collection Undercurrents was published by Alba Publishing in 2016. She has two books forthcoming in 2017: The Lost Library Book, an illustrated children’s book, from The Onslaught Press, and a debut poetry collection, First the Feathers, Doire Press

Amy Blythe graduated from Queens University Belfast with a Masters in Creative Writing. She has been published in Crannóg Magazine, Skylight 47, Banshee Lit and more. Nowadays, she can be found offline in her home county of Kildare and online under the handle @sparkbones

Amy McCauley lives in Manchester and is poetry editor for New Welsh Review. In 2016 she received a Northern Writers’ Award. You can find out more about her work here: http://mccauliana.weebly.com/