Donna Sørensen is originally from the UK. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, Cyphers, Crannóg, Revival and Wordlegs, with others soon to be published in The Shop and Orbis. She participated in the 2011 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series and received a commendation from the 2011 Patrick Kavanagh Award for her first unpublished collection, Dream Country. Donna was selected to read as an emerging poet at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012.

Donnah Vuma is originally from Zimbabwe. She lives in direct provision with her three children. She is studying Politics and International Relations with Sociology as a sanctuary scholarship beneficiary at the University of Limerick. She is co-founder of Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI) and is founder of a Limerick-based community group, Every Child is Your Child.

Dorothy Melia Durkac was born in New Jersey and has lived in California for many years. She had the honour of reading ‘What He Did With The Insides‘ at Lismore Castle. She wants to return to Ireland soon.

Dr Hilary Lennon received her PhD from the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and is the Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy Research Fellow in the School of English, University College Cork. She is the editor of Frank O’Connor: Critical Essays (Four Courts Press, 2007), and the creator and editor of the UCC official O’Connor website, frankoconnor.ucc.ie. Her Selected Letters of Frank O’Connor is forthcoming from Cork University Press.

Dr Luca Crispi is Lecturer in the Centre for Research for James Joyce Studies, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. With Anne Fogarty, he is editor of the Dublin James Joyce Journal and was co-curator of the James Joyce (2004–2006) and then the W.B. Yeats (2006–ongoing) exhibitions at the National Library of Ireland.

Dumitru Crudu was born in 1967 and is a radio producer, poet and playwright. His collections include Closed, Please Do not Knock ( 1994) and Six Songs For Those Who Want To Rent Apartments (1996).

Dylan Brennan lives in Mexico City. He was the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award winner for 2019. Publications include Atoll and Blood Oranges.

Dylan Harris was born in the UK. Just before the launch of Sputnik (in Dublin), he cofounded & coöperated Wurm. Im Apfel, with Kit Fryatt in Paris, he launched poets live and corrupt. Press books include antwerp, the liberation of. [placeholder] and the newish (ANTICIPATING): The Meta! Verse: see more at dylanharris.org

Eabhan Ní Shúileabháin has had her work published in Incognito, The Sunday Tribune and Issue Two of The Stinging Fly. A member of the Dublin Writers’ Workshop, she is one of twelve poets to feature in this year’s Poetry Ireland Introductions series.

Eamon Grennan, a Dubliner, taught for many years at Vassar College. His collections include Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2010), and There Now (Gallery) Press/Graywolf. 2016). In the past ten years he has been writing and directing ‘plays for voices’ for Curlew Theatre Company, Connemara.

Dean Fee is studying for an MA in Writing in NUI Galway. As well as writing short stories, he is also an essayist and is currently working on a novel.

Deborah Rose Reeves was born and raised in Dublin. She is currently settled in rural Oregon and working on her first novel. deborahrosereeves.com

Declan Ryan was born in County Mayo. He teaches at King’s College London and is
poetry editor at Ambit. His debut pamphlet appeared in the Faber New Poets series
in 2014.

Declan Sweeney is from east Galway. He has published poetry and prose in various periodicals in Ireland, England, and America. His writing has also been broadcast and produced on stage. ‘Feast Days’ is the title story of a new collection.

Deirdre Carr is a poet and painter from County Offaly, now living in County Limerick. Her work has appeared in Incognito , Poetry Ireland Review, Black Mountain Review and in Issue Three of this magazine.

Deirdre Cartmill’s debut collection will be published by Lagan Press in autumn 2004. Previously shortlisted for a Hennessy Award, her work has been
widely published in anthologies and magazines.

Deirdre Doherty has had poems published in various literary journals. Her work was shortlisted for the Hennessy Poetry Award 2012 and The Bridport Prize 2012. She is working on a first collection that will focus on the psychological landscape.

Deirdre Gleeson lives in Dublin. Two of her stories have previously been published by The Stinging Fly: one in the anthology, Let’s Be Alone Together (2008), and the other in our Summer 2010 issue.

Dennis O’Driscoll was born in Thurles, Co Tipperary, in 1954. His seven books of poetry include Exemplary Damages (Anvil Press, 2002) and New & Selected Poems (Anvil Press, forthcoming 2004). A selection of his essays and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams (Gallery Press), was published in 2001. He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999.

Dermot Healy was a novelist, poet and playwright. The extract here is from his last novel, Long Time No See, which was published by Faber & Faber in 2010.

Desmond Hogan has published five novels and four collections of short stories. His work has recently been published in the Dalkey Archive Press anthology, Best European Fiction.

Diana Lueptow lives in Akron, Ohio. Her work has been published in Arion, Beloit Poetry Journal, FIELD, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

David Colmer is an Australian author and translator and a long-time resident of Amsterdam. He translates Dutch literature into English in a range of genres and has won several translation awards. In 2010 his translation of Gerbrand Bakker’s first novel, The Twin, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The translations here are supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta online, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review and A Public Space, in the Faber New Irish Writing anthology, ‘Being Various’, edited by Lucy Caldwell, in ‘The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories’, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, and on BBC and RTÉ radio. His first book, ‘Darker With the Lights On’, is published by Transit Books and Carcanet Press.

David McLoghlin’s first book is Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2012). His second collection, Santiago Sketches, is forthcoming from Salmon. His pamphlet Sign Tongue won the 2014 Goodmorning Menagerie Chapbook-in-Translation prize. For more information, see www.davidmcloghlin.com

David Means was born and raised in Michigan and is the author of one novel and five collections of short stories, most recently Instructions for a Funeral. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and Esquire, among other publications. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.

David Lynch is from Cork City, Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, his work has also appeared in Icarus, Three Monkeys, and The Irish Times.

David Murphy’s poetry has been published many times in magazines and anthologies in Ireland and abroad, including The Burning Bush, Cyphers and The SHOp. Also a short story writer and novelist, his latest book is a fiction-memoir called Walking on Ripples (Liffey Press, 2014). davidmurph.wordpress.com