Cristina Aguilera Arias is originally from Argentina but has been living in County Kerry for the past seven years. She is member of the Corner’s Poet in Tralee and Women Writers in a New Ireland network. She was previously published in The Shop.

D-L Alvarez is the son of immigrants to the United States: Sharkey, from Mexico, and Ethel, from Ireland. He currently lives and works in Berlin. He makes super 8 films, draws city parks, and writes fiction. His visual work is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York.

D.S. Maolalai’s poetry has appeared internationally in more magazines than he can count. He currently lives in Dublin. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

D.W.Lewis was born in 1974 and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He currently lives in Belfast where he runs the CultureNorthernIreland.org website.

Dairena Ní Chinnéide was born and lives on the Dingle Peninsula. Her published collections include An Trodaí agus Dánta Eile/The Warrior and Other Poems and Máthair an Fhiaigh/The Raven’s Mother (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2006, 2008).

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Daisy Lafarge is a writer, artist and editor. understudies for air (2017) was published by Sad Press and selected as a book of the year by The White Review and The Poetry School. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2017 and was runner-up in the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.

Dan O’Brien is a playwright and poet living in Los Angeles. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize, the PEN Center USA Award, and, for poetry, the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. www.danobrien.org

Clair Wills is Chair of Irish Letters at the University of Princeton. She is currently
writing a history of Britain in the 1950s and 60s, told from the perspective of migrants
from Europe, the Caribbean and South Asia.

Claire Keegan is the author of Antarctica, a collection of stories published by Faber & Faber. It was published by Grove/Atlantic in the United States and was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her stories have won the William Trevor Prize, The Martin Healy Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Allingham Prize, The Macaulay Fellowship and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. She was also a Wingate Scholar. Other stories appear in Granta and The Paris Review. Her second collection, Walk The Blue Fields, will be published by Faber next year. ‘Dark Horses’ won this year’s Francis MacManus Award.

Claire Kilroy was born in Dublin and is the author of four novels. Her debut, All Summer, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2004. Tenderwire appeared in 2006 and was shortlisted for both the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the Irish Novel of the Year Award. All Names Have Been Changed was published in 2009 and her most recent novel, The Devil I Know, was shortlisted for the 2013 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. ‘In this carnivalesque allegory of Ireland’s property boom,’ the Guardian wrote, ‘Claire Kilroy presents a satiric danse macabre of brio and linguistic virtuosity… a dark divertimento that runs on linguistic verve and energy.’ Claire lives in Dublin with her husband and baby.

Claire-Louise Bennett’s short fiction and essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Penny Dreadful, The Moth, Colony, The Irish Times, The White Review and gorse. Her first book, Pond, was published by the Stinging Fly Press in 2015.

Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. She writes fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, and has had work published in Banshee, Room, Event, and Cicada. She currently lives in Tokyo.

Clare Archibald is a Scottish writer. ‘Parallel of Past Imperfect’ is an extract from her hybrid linked sequence of abstractions The Absolution of Shyness. She has a photography and words pamphlet forthcoming as part of the Gorse Editions series, will be part of the Form Ever Follows Function digital art exhibition in Dublin in 2019, and curates the Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness project.

Clare McCotter trained as a psychiatric nurse in Belfast in the 1980s. In 2005 she was awarded a PhD in literature from the University of Ulster. Her haiku, tanka and haibun have been published in leading short form journals. She was a winner in the Irish Haiku Society Award 2010, and she judged the British Haiku Awards in 2011. Her home is Kilrea, County Derry.

Clare Needham is a writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares Solos, New York Tyrant Magazine, Burning House Press, Catapult, Bodega Magazine, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.

Cliona O’Connell was the winner of the 2011 Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition. She was selected for the 2010 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series and was shortlisted for the 2009 Hennessey Literary Awards for Emerging Poetry. She has previously been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Southword, The Sunday Tribune and the Fish Anthology. She is currently studying for an MA in Poetry Studies at Mater Dei Institute, Dublin City University. Her debut collection is forthcoming from Bradshaw Books.

Clodagh Beresford Dunne studied English and Law before qualifying as a solicitor. She lives in County Waterford with her husband and four young children. She writes poetry and short stories.

Colette Connor is a poet and playwright. She was a participant in the 1999 National Writers’ Workshop at NUI, Galway. Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies.

Colin Barrett’s first collection of short stories, ‘Young Skins’ (Stinging Fly Press, 2013), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Colin Corrigan has an MFA in creative writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where he won the Delbanco Thesis Prize and was awarded a Zell Fellowship. Before moving to America he received an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin, and worked for ten years in the Irish television industry. A recipient of funding from the Arts Council of Ireland, short films he wrote and directed have been broadcast on Irish network television and screened internationally at film festivals. His short fiction has appeared in Amazon’s weekly literary journal Day One, the Irish magazine The Stinging Fly, the UK anthology series The Fiction Desk, and the anthology Surge: New Writing from Ireland, which was published to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of O’Brien Press. He lives with his wife in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is writing his first novel.

Colin O’Sullivan is the author of a short story collection, Anhedonia, and a novella for teenagers, Majo. His fiction and poetry regularly appear in print and on the web. He has just completed a novel and a short story collection and is looking for a publisher. He lives in Japan with his wife and two children.

Colleen Abel is the author of Housewifery (dancing girl press, 2013). A former Fellow at the Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, she has published in Colorado Review, The Southern Review and elsewhere. She lives near Chicago.

Chris Kohler is a writer living in Glasgow. His work has been published in Gutter and Egress.

Chris Newlove Horton’s fiction has appeared in Lighthouse, Banshee, and The Moth. He has twice been shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize.

Chris Reid has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly (Issue 6), The Cúirt Journal, Books Ireland and Cutting Teeth (Scotland). He has scripted and directed short films and videos which have been screened at many festivals and venues. He also works as an illustrator.

Christina Park is a journalist living in Dublin. Her poetry is due to appear in THE SHOp and has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Big Issue Book of Home (Hodder & Stoughton) and the Beehive Press poetry prizewinners’ anthology, Darkness and Light. Her short story, ‘The Full Seven,’ was published in the anthology All Good Things Begin (2006).

Christine Broe works as an art therapist in Dublin and facilitates creative writing workshops using art media (enquiries welcome al.mandala@gmail.com). She was the winner of the Brendan Kennelly/Sunday Tribune Award in 2000 and the Premio Cittá di Olbia award in 2001. ‘Solas Sólás’ was published by Swan Press in 2003.

Christine Dwyer Hickey has published seven novels, one collection of short stories and a full length play. The Cold Eye of Heaven (Atlantic uk) was winner the Kerrygroup Novel of the Year 2012. Her latest novel is The Lives of Woman (Atlantic UK 2015).