Rachel Wright is working on a Creative Writing PhD at University College Dublin. She is currently writing a novel.

Ragnar Almqvist is a graduate of Trinity College’s M. Phil in Creative Writing. He has been published in the anthologies Incorrigibly Plural and Let’s Be Alone Together.

Ramsey Nasr was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1974, into a Palestinian-Dutch family. In addition to writing poetry, essays, dramas, librettos, newspaper articles and opinion pieces, he trained and continues to work as an actor. In 2009 Ramsey Nasr was voted Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, after having also been the City Poet of Antwerp in 2005. Heavenly Life – Selected Poems, his first collection in English translation, will be published this year by Banipal Books, www.banipal.co.uk.

Ray Finucane recently returned to Ireland after ten years abroad. He lives in Dublin.

Rebecca Ivory lives and works in Dublin. She writes short stories. ‘The Consequences’ is her second story to feature in The Stinging Fly.

Rebecca O’Connor was a recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and her chapbook, Poems, was published by the Wordsworth Trust, where she was a writer in residence in 2005. She edits a new arts and literature magazine called The Moth. www.themothmagazine.com

Rehan Ali was born in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. At the age of six, his mother fled the country, taking him and his siblings to the land they would come to know as Ireland. He spent his childhood in a hostel named Bridgewater House in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.

Richard Hawtree’s poems have appeared in British and Irish literary magazines
including Scintilla, The Penny Dreadful, and Brain of Forgetting. He is a lecturer in
Creative Writing at the University for the Creative Arts.

Richard Paul Todd is a graduate of Glasgow University’s Creative Writing MPhil, Richard Todd is currently, with Scottish Art Council support, working on his debut novel, the first chapter of which was published by Alan Warner and Sophy Dale’s Long Lunch Press.

Richard Smyth is originally from Wakefield and now lives in Leeds. A published cartoonist, he is currently working on a novel set in Wakefield. This is his first published story.

Richard Tillinghast is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent being Sewanee Poems and Selected Poems, both 2009. In 2008 he published Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Explorations of Irish
Literature and Culture. He has received grants from the Irish Arts Council, the British Council, and the NEH, was awarded the Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship from Harvard, and is a 2010-11 Guggenheim Fellow.

Richard W. Halperin has dual Irish-U.S. nationality and lives in Paris. His third collection via Salmon/Cliffs of Moher is Quiet in a Quiet House,2016; recent chapbooks via Lapwing Publications/Belfast are The Centreless Astonishment of Things, 2015 and Prisms, 2017.

Ridwan Tijani was born in Nigeria and now he lives in Indianapolis. His work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Lunch Ticket, Brittle Paper, Afreada, Necessary Fiction, Pithead Chapel and Mulberry Fork Review. He is at work on a novel. Twitter account: @RidwanTijani4

Philip Ó Ceallaigh lives in Bucharest. ‘Trouble’, his third collection of stories was published by The Stinging Fly Press in May 2021. Philip’s two previous collections, ‘Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse’ and ‘The Pleasant Light of Day’, were shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is a recipient of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, among other awards.

Philip St John’s latest play The Restoration Of Hope will run next November at Mermaid, Bray and The New Theatre, Dublin. His stories have appeared in New Irish Writing and elsewhere. He has twice received Arts Council literature bursaries.

Phillip Crymble was born in Belfast in 1967, lived in Zambia for two years, then returned to Ireland briefly before emigrating to Canada with his family in 1978. He holds two Bachelor’s degrees, one in English Literature from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), the other
in Creative Writing from York University (Toronto). He teaches as a Lecturer in English at the University of Michigan. His poems have appeared most recently in The Alembic (USA), Poetry Scotland, Coppertales (Australia), The Fiddlehead (Canada) and Cuirt Annual 2004.

Is as Árainn Mhór i dTír Chonaill do Phroinsias Mac a’ Bhaird. Scríobhann sé idir fhilíocht, phrós agus dhrámaíocht agus tá 10 leabhar i gcló aige, trí chnuasach filíochta ina measc.

Piers Gelly is a writer and radio producer based in Charlottesville, Virginia. His work has appeared in The Literary Review and on 99% Invisible.

Piotr Sommer, one of Poland’s leading poets, is the author of eight books of poetry and two books of essays. His latest book, Continued, is published this year by Wesleyan University Press and Bloodaxe Books. He lives near Warsaw and is editor with the international writing magazine, Literatura na Swiecie.

Pippa Little lives in Northumberland and is a Royal Literary Fellow at Newcastle University. Her second full collection, Twist, was published in April 2017 by Arc.

Pura López Colomé was born in Mexico City. She has published eight volumes of poetry, selections of which have been translated by Forrest Gander and Alistair Reid, among others. She has also published translations of poets such as William Carlos Williams, Seamus Heaney, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Hass and many others.

Quincy R. Lehr lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches history. His poems, criticism, and essays have appeared in numerous journals across the world. He is the associate editor of The Raintown Review, and his books are Across the Grid of Streets and Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock.

Rachael Mead is a South Australian writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry: The Sixth Creek (Picaro Press 2013) and two chapbooks. You can find more of her work at rachaelmead.com

Rachel Andrews’ essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in outlets including the London Review of Books, n+1, Brick literary journal, the Stinging Fly, Longreads, Gorse, Banshee, the White Review, the Irish Times and the Dublin Review. In 2018, she was runner up in the inaugural Hubert Butler Essay Prize and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and the Notting Hill Essay Prize. She lives and works in Cork City, Ireland.

Paul Muldoon was born in Armagh in 1951. He has won many awards for his poetry including a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. He was recently appointed poetry editor of the New Yorker.

Paul Murray was born in Dublin where he continues to live. His first book, An Evening of Long Goodbyes (Penguin UK) was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Skippy Dies will be published by Penguin UK in 2010.

Paul O’Reilly lives with his wife and children in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. He is a recorded singer, songwriter and musician who has performed on national radio and TV. His fiction has been shortlisted for the Seán O’Faoláin Prize, the Bristol Prize, and the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Prize. He is currently shortlisted for the 2011 Hennessy Literary Awards and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. see www.pauloreilly.ie.

Paul O’Sullivan has had stories published in Bunbury Magazine and is currently working on his first collection. He lives in Bristol.

Paul Perry is the author of five collections of poetry, including Gun Powder Valentine: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press).