Paula Faller lives in Dublin and works as a teacher. This is her second publication in The Stinging Fly. She writes mostly poetry and is a member of the North Dublin Writers’ group.

Paula McGrath lives in Dublin. Her first novel, Generation, was published in 2015, and A History of Running Away, her second novel, will is forthcoming in June 2017 (both John Murray Press). She has a background in English Literature and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Limerick. She received an Arts Council literary bursary in 2016, and was recently Irish Writers Centre Writer-in-Residence in St Mark’s Cultural Centre, Florence. In another life, she was a yoga teacher.

Paula Meehan lives and works in Dublin where she was born. Her latest book of poems, Painting Rain, has just been published by Carcanet Press.

Peggie Gallagher is a poet and short story writer from Sligo. Her work has been published in THE SHOp, Cyphers, SOUTHWORD, Poetry Ireland, Atlanta Review, Envoi, Peregrine, West 47 and Poetry Daily.

Peggy O’Brien is the author of two collections of poems, ‘Sudden Thaw’ and ‘Frog Spotting’. She spent twenty years teaching at Trinity College Dublin and has taught for the same length of time at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Peter Bachev (b.1989) holds a largely superfluous Master’s in Gender Studies (LSE), co-ordinates sex education provision in secondary schools across London and is, shockingly, not writing his first novel.

Peter Boyle is an Australian poet living in Sydney. He has published ve collections of poetry, including Apocrypha in 2009. A new and selected of his poetry Towns in the Great Desert is due out later this year.

Peter Gizzi’s most recent books include Archeophonics (shortlisted for a National Book Award) and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011, both published by Wesleyan University Press. For a number of years he edited o·blēk: a journal of language arts. He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Peter Paul Sweeney was the pen name of Bruce Carolan, an award-winning writer and law lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology. Originally from New Jersey, Bruce moved to Ireland in the early nineties. He passed away in September 2015.

Peter Sirr has published ten poetry collections, of which the most recent are The Gravity Wave (2019), a Poetry Book Society recommendation and Sway (2016). The Rooms (2014) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Pigott Poetry Prize. The Thing Is (2009) was awarded the Michael Hartnett Prize in 2011.

Peter Stuart-Sheppard lives in Toronto and spends some time each summer writing in Ballyvaughan, County Clare. His poetry has been published in Canada.

Peter Werner is a regular contributor to Irish and UK magazines. He is a national poetry competition winner, and his work has also been anthologised.

Phelim Kavanagh has published short fiction in Wordlegs and Boyne Berries, and his work has also featured on Carlow local radio. In 2013, he was shortlisted for RTÉ’s New Planet Cabaret.

Philip Casey has published three novels, including The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001), and four collections of verse, inluding Dialogue in Fading Light, forthcoming from New Island Books. His website is www.philipcasey.com.

Philip Cummings was born in Belfast in 1964. His previous publications have been mostly in the Irish language, including an award-winning book of poetry Néalta (Coiscéim, 2005) and Dar Liom (Coiscéim, 2008), a collection of columns from his time as Arts Editor of Lá Nua.

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, where he still lives, in 1955. He has worked a lot in fiction and drama and published a lot over the years. At the moment he is working with Corcadorca, Cork, on a new play, and on a number of stories. He likes music but not football.

Patrick McEvoy resides near Downpatrick, County Down. His work has appeared in The Irish News, Fortnight, Chapman and the Honest Ulsterman. He has also had a chapbook published by Lapwing Press.

Patrick Moran is from Tipperary. He has published three collections of poetry: The Stubble Fields (Dedalus Press, 2001), Green (Salmon, 2008) and Bearings (Salmon, 2015). His work has appeared widely in Ireland and the UK.

Patrick O’Flaherty is from Limerick. His stories have appeared in The Moth, Bookanista, theNYPress, The Bohemyth, The New Planet Cabaret anthology and elsewhere. His fiction has also been broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 and shortlisted for the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award.

Patrick Warner was born in Claremorris, County Mayo, in 1963. He now lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He has published four collections of poetry and a novel. A second novel, One Hit Wonders, is forthcoming in 2015.

Paul Bregazzi is a primary school teacher in West Dublin. His poetry has appeared in the print journals Crannóg, Revival, Stony Thursday and Skylight 47; and online with The Ofi Press, Shotglass Journal, The Weekenders Magazine and Southword.

Paul Cussen sold books for twenty years and now works in Cork City Libraries. He is the author of Cork: A Pocket Guide (Collins Press, 2004).

Paul Durcan’s new book of poems, The Laughter of Mothers, will be published by Harvill Secker in October.

Paul Groves was born in Gloucester in 1947. His collections include Menage a Trois, Eros and Thanatos and Wowsers.

Paul Hickey has made all of his life decisions based on movies he has seen and now, at 23, and in his final year of art college, he thinks he may have been watching all the wrong films.

Paul Kihn is a teacher and community-based educator who has lived and worked in South Africa, the United States and Ireland. This is his first short story to be published.

Paul Lenehan has had stories published in Ireland, England, Australia, and in German translation. He is looking for a publisher for a novel and a collection of stories.

Paul Leyden was born in 1967. He lives and works in Dublin and has previously been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Salmon Poetry, Electric Acorn and Stony Thursday.

Paul Lynch is author of four novels — BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France’s booksellers’ prize, Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel. He has been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in the UK, the William Saroyan International Prize in the US and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde, and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. Born in Limerick in 1977, he grew up in Donegal and lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.