Gillman Noonan was born in Kanturk, County Cork. Having worked abroad for several years, his first stories began to appear in the seventies. He has published two collections and is set on assembling a third.

Gina Moxley is a writer, actor and director. Her most recent play was The Crumb Trail for Pan Pan theatre. Two of her plays, Danti-Dan and Dog House, are published by Faber and Faber. She recently directed ‘Solpadeine is My Boyfriend’ and ‘The Wheelchair on My Face’, which won a Fringe First at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival. Her story, ‘Cuts’, appeared in the anthology, Let’s Be Alone Together (Stinging Fly Press, 2008).

Giovanni Malito is ltalo-Canadian and lives in Cork. He is editor of The Brobdingnagian Times, a broadsheet of international poetry.

Glen Jeffries was born and raised in the north-west of England. He has previously lived in New York and Arctic Norway and is now based back in the UK. His non-fiction writing has appeared in publications including ‘Hakai’, ‘Arctic Deeply’, ‘Earthlines’ and ‘Smithsonian Magazine’. This is his first short story to be published.

Glenn Patterson’s latest novel is Gull (Head of Zeus). He has published nine previous
novels and three books of non-fiction and co-wrote the film Good Vibrations. He lives in Belfast.

Grace Jolliffe has written for film, television and radio. Her debut novel, Piggy Monk Square, was published in 2005 by Tindal Street Press and shortlisted for the Commonwealth New Writers Award.

Originally from Dublin, for the past few years Ferdia Lennon has been largely based in Paris. He holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and his fiction has appeared in publications such as the Stinging Fly, Southword and most recently the Irish Times.

Fergal Gaynor is a poet, critic and editor based in Cork. His poetry has appeared in issues of Shearsman, The Irish University Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Free Verse, etc. A collection, VIII Stepping Poems & Other Pieces, was published by Miami University Press in 2011.

Fiona Gell is from the Isle of Man where she works in marine conservation. She has a PhD in Mozambican fisheries and has worked as a marine biologist in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. Her poems have been published in magazines including The Rialto, Smiths Knoll and Wasifiri.

Fíona Ní Chinneide lives in Dublin where she works as a web writer. She had a story in Issue Four of this magazine.

Fiona O’Connor is a Hennessy Short Story Prize-winner, amongst other awards. She contributes to The Irish Times Books section, The Guardian and The People’s Daily Morning Star. With St. John’s Mill Theatre Company she puts on summer shows in Killarney, Co. Kerry.

Fiona O’Hea lives in Belfast and graduated with a BA in English in 2008. She is currently a student at Queen’s University Belfast on the Creative Writing MA course.

Fiona Privitera’s favourite book when she was really little was The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover. Fiona wants to one day publish a pop-up book.

Fiona Ritchie Walker was born in Scotland and is one of twelve poets featured in the new Virago/Writing Women anthology Wild Cards. Her first collection will be published by Diamond Twig Press in October.

Fiona Sampson’s latest collection is The Distance Between Us (2005). Common Prayer (Carcanet) is forthcoming in June 2007. Her awards include the Newdigate Prize, the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia) and The Literary Review’s Charles Angoff Award (US).

Fionnuala Broughan works, writes and gardens in Dublin; though many days she’d rather be swimming in the Atlantic off Dooey in Donegal. She has had prose broadcast on RTE Radio One and RTE Lyric FM.

Floyd Skloot’s twenty books include the poetry collection Approaching Winter (Louisiana State Univ. Press 2015), the novel The Phantom of Thomas Hardy (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2016), and the prize-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2003). He lives in Oregon.

Dr Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of seven poetry collections and numerous chapbooks, most recently Contains Mild Peril (Out-Spoken Press, 2019). Fran has recently completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled, ‘Impossible Telling and the Epistolary Form: Contemporary Poetry, Mourning and Trauma’. She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters.

Frani O’Toole is a writer from Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in The Adroit Journal, while her art criticism can be found in The Guardian, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Frank Farrelly is from Waterford, where he works as a secondary school teacher. He has published poems in The SHOp and Revival, and he was shortlisted in 2010 for the Writing Spirit Poetry Award.

Frank Golden is a poet and novelist who lives in Ballyvaughan, County Clare. His last colection was The Interior Act (Salmon). Proof of Existence is due in 2006.

Frank Schulz lives and writes in Hamburg, northern Germany. He is best known for
his novel series Hagener Trilogie (1991, 2001, 2006), for which he won several literary awards. His first collection of short stories, More Love: Tricky Stories, appeared in 2010. In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious Kranichsteiner Literature Prize by the German Literature Fund. ‘Bittersweet Nightshade’ (from the above short story collection) is his first publication in English.

Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951 and is currently manager of the Western Writers’ Centre in Galway. He is in receipt of an Ireland Funds Award to take a residency at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco during September and October this year.

Friedrich Christian Delius was born in Rome in 1943, grew up in Hessen, and now lives in Berlin. Die Birnen van Ribbeck ( 1991) casts a critical eye over events in East Germany shortly after reunification in 1990. The book consists of a single sentence, spanning 72 pages, and follows the course of a local villager’s rambling thoughts as he observes the goings-on at a ‘reunification party’.

Gabriel Rosenstock born c. 1949 in postcolonial Ireland, poet, tankaist, novelist, haikuist, playwright, essayist, author-translator of c. 200 books. Also writes for children, mostly in Irish. Recent titles: a comic detective novel My Head is Missing (Evertype,) and ekphrastic haiku in response to the collages of Karl Waldmann, Judgement Day (The Onslaught Press, Oxford). His multicultural blog: http://roghaghabriel.blogspot.ie/

Gabrielle Barnby lives in Orkney and works in a variety of genres. Her collection, ‘The House With The Lilac Shutters and other stories’, was published by ThunderPoint in 2015. Her first novel, ‘The Oystercatcher Girl’, will be released by ThunderPoint this year.

Gary A. Boyd is an architect from Glasgow.

Gary Allen has published fifteen collections of poetry, most recently, ‘Jackson’s Corner,’ Greenwich Exchange, London 2016. A new collection, ‘Mapland,’ has just been published by Clemson University Press, South Carolina. He has also published three literary novels, ‘Cillin,’ ‘The Estate,’ and, ‘Twenty-Eight Worlds.’

Gavan Duffy lives in Dublin. He is a member of Platform One writers group and has previously published in Crannog, South Bank Poetry, Stony Thursday, Poetry Porch and forthcoming issues of Poetry Ireland Review and New Irish Writing.