Wendy Ogden writes by the sea in East Sussex. Publications include articles and short stories which have also won a couple of prizes. She has published articles in The Lady and The New Writer, and she is working on her second novel.

William Wall is the author of four novels, three collections of poetry and two volumes of short fiction. His work has won many prizes including the Drue Heinz Prize, The Virginia Faulkner Award, The Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Sean O’Faolain Prize and many more. He was longlisted for The Man Booker Prize. His work has been translated into many languages and he translates from Italian. ‘Wall, who is also a poet, writes prose so charged—at once lyrical and syncopated—that it’s as if Cavafy had decided to write about a violent Irish household.’ (The New Yorker)

Yan Ge is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. She is the author of thirteen books in Chinese, including six novels. Yan started to write in English in 2016. Since then, her writing has been published in The New York Times, TLS, Brick and elsewhere.

Yang Lian was born in Switzerland and grew up in Beijing. He went into exile following the Tian’anmen Square massacre in 1989. He has published ten collections of poems, two of prose and many essays in Chinese. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He has lived in London since 1997.

Yvonne Cullen works as a creative writing teacher. Her first poetry collection, Invitation to the Air, won the American Ireland Fund Award in 1997 and was published by Italics press in 1998. Yvonne’s poems appear in 2004’s New Irish Poets from Bloodaxe Books, among other anthologies. Showtown, her non-fiction account of a showpeoples’ caravan park in Dublin, and of the twentieth century world of Ireland’s travelling shows, will appear at the end of 2012.

Zakia Uddin is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Zoe Gilbert’s short stories have appeared in anthologies and journals worldwide, and she won the Costa Short Story Award 2014. Her first book,Folk, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2018. She is working on a PhD on folk tales and the short story.

Zou Jingzhi (b. 1952) is an acclaimed playwright, poet and prose writer. Extremely influential as a poet in the 1980s, he continues to shape public opinion through his screenplays, which include Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (dir. Zhang Yimou) and The Grandmaster (dir. Wong Kar Wai). He is a founding member of theatre collective Longmashe, which regularly produces his plays. His opera The Night Banquet was performed in English translation at Lincoln Centre in New York in 2002.

Tony Curtis was born in Dublin in 1955. An award-winning poet, he has published four collections of poetry, the latest being Three Songs Of Home (Dedalus, 1998). A new collection, What Darkness Covers, is forthcoming. He is a member of Aosdana.

Tony Devlin is a Dubliner, born in 1952 and married with four grown-up children. Living in Blanchardstown, Tony has been writing poems and stories intermittently for most of his adult life.

Tony Murray is Director of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University. He researches literary and cultural representations of migration and diaspora and his book, London Irish Fictions: Narrative, Diaspora and Identity is published by Liverpool University Press.

Tory Campbell is a graduate of Goldsmiths College in Fine Art/Art History. She lives and works in Belfast, presently a tutor to adults with learning disabilities. She has been attending the Seamus Heaney Centre Writers’ Group for three years. This is her first published poem.

Trevor Joyce, a native of central Dublin, has now lived half his life in Cork city. He was co-founder of the New Writers’ Press (Dublin, 1967) and SoundEye (Cork, 1997). Recent books include his Selected Poems (2014) and Fastness (2017). He is a member of Aosdána.

Trevor Ketner is the author of Major Arcana: Minneapolis, winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest judged by Diane Seuss. They have been or will be published in Best New Poets, New England Review, Ninth Letter, West Branch, Pleiades, Diagram and elsewhere. They live in Manhattan with their husband.

Tulis McCall is a writer and actor living in Los Angeles. She is the creator of a two one-person plays: ‘What Everywoman Knows’-a stand-up historical comedy based on the history of American women-and ‘Running With Scissors-an Urban Tale’.

Val Nolan’s definitive history of the John McGahern banning appeared in Irish Studies Review (2011) while his story ‘The Irish Astronaut’ was shortlisted for the 2014 Theodore Sturgeon Award. He lectures at Aberystwyth University.

Víctor Balcells Matas holds a BA in Humanities and Audiovisual Communication and an MA in Scientific Journalism from the University of Salamanca. He has worked for La Vanguardia and El Diario de Ibiza and with literary publishers Blackie Books and Duomo Ediciones. His debut short story collection Yo Mataré Monstruos por Ti (I Will Kill Monsters for You) is currently being translated into English and French. His debut novel is due in October 2013 from Alfabia, where he currently works as editor of foreign editions.
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Victoria Sprow was a 2007 US Mitchell Scholar and will receive her MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College this winter. She did her undergraduate work in English at Harvard University and is currently studying for an MFA in Fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is at work on a novel.

Vincent McDonnell was a judge for the 2009 Cork City – Frank O’Connor Award.

Wendy Ann Greenhalgh is a writer, artist, author and creative mindfulness teacher. Her short fiction and poetry have been published by Stinging Fly, Mslexia, Bare Fiction, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Flash – The International Short Short Magazine. She’s the author of Mindfulness & the Art of Drawing (2015) and Stop Look Breathe Create (2017). She shares her writing and art on social media using #stoplookbreathecreate, and invites you to say hello on Facebook: Art of Mindfulness – Twitter: @_wendyann – Instagram: @artomfindfulness or at https://artofmindfulness.wordpress.com/

Thuy-Chi Le was born and grew up in Vietnam. She graduated from the University of Chicago, where she studied philosophy and literature, and now lives in Ithaca, New York, as an MFA candidate in poetry at Cornell University.

Tim Dwyer was born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was from Gort and his father was from east of Loughrea. A psychologist in New York State correctional facilities, he presently lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley. He is working on a manuscript entitled Light and Time. He recently resumed writing after a thirty-year gap.

Tim MacGabhann‘s first novel, ‘Call Him Mine’, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson last year. His second, ‘How to Be Nowhere’, is out with the same publisher this year. His writing has also appeared in The Dublin Review, gorse, and many major international news outlets. He lives in Mexico.

Toby Buckley recently completed his MA in the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast. His work has previously been published in The Tangerine, HCE Review and The Rose Magazine, as well as in a number of different independent zines. He received the first Ruth West Award for Poetry in 2016. He currently washes dishes in a small sandwich deli and runs an even smaller arts zine called Bombinate.

Todd Swift is a Canadian poet based in London. His Seaway: New and Selected Poems was published by Salmon in 2008. He is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at Kingston University. He is Oxfam Great Britain’s Poet-in-residence.

Tom Mathews was born in Dublin where he has worked as a freelance cartoonist, writer and
critic since 1975. His poetry collection, The Owl and The Pussycat, was published by Dedalus Press in 2009 and was shortlisted for both the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award and the Seamus Heaney Centre prize.

Tom Willis lives in London.

Tania Hershman’s debut poetry collection, Terms & Conditions (Nine Arches Press) and third story collection, Some Of Us Glow More Than Others (Unthank Books) are forthcoming in 2017. She is co-author of Writing Short Stories (Bloomsbury) and curator of ShortStops. www.taniahershman.com

Tara Bergin is from Dublin. Her first collection of poems, This is Yarrow, was published by Carcanet in 2013 and was awarded the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, and the Shine/Strong Award.