Enda Wyley was born and lives in Dublin. Her books of poetry include Eating
Baby Jesus (Dedalus Press, 1994 ), Socrates in the Garden (Dedalus Press, 1998) and, most recently, Poems for Breakfast (Dedalus Press, 2004 ). She was the inaugural winner of The Vincent Buckley Memorial prize and has twice received Arts Council bursaries in literature.

Eoghan Walls, a Derryman, studied and taught in Wales, Dublin and London before spending two years in rural Rwanda. His thoughts remain there as he teaches now in Germany.

Eoin McNamee was born in Kilkeel, County Down, in 1961. His first book, the novella The Last of Deeds, was shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize. His novels include Resurrection Man (1996), The Blue Tango (2001), The Ultras (2004), 12:23 (2007) and Orchid Blue (2010). He also writes under the name John Creed. He lives in County Sligo.

Eamon Mc Guinness is from Dublin. His writing has appeared in Looking at the Stars, Abridged, The Honest Ulsterman, The Bohemyth, Skylight 47, Bare Hands Poetry and The Galway Review. He is on the Strokestown International Poetry Prize shortlist 2017. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from UCD.

Eamon McGuinness’s work has featured in The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2017, he was shortlisted in the RTÉ Francis MacManus short story competition. His debut collection is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.

Eamonn Lynskey’s collection Dispatches and Recollections was published by Lapwing (Belfast) in 1998. He was nominated for the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poetry in 2006. He is a regular contributor to the open mic.

Eavan Boland’s new book, Domestic Violence, will be published in March by Carcanet (UK) and W.W. Norton (USA). She is the editor of Irish Writers on Irish Writing (Trinity Press, USA) to be published in March 2007.

Edip Cansever (1928-1986) was an Istanbul poet, member of a group of writers called the Ikinci Yeni, or Second New. His gritty, resolutely secular poetry is well known and widely quoted in Turkey. Dirty August, a volume of his selected poems translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast, is due out in 2009 from Talisman Editions.

Edna Faye Kiel lives in Killaspuglonane where she is an Assistant Editor to New Series: Departures. Her fiction has appeared in Books Ireland, The Cuirt journal, Incognito, and Rosebud.

Edna O’Brien has written over twenty works of fiction along with plays, memoirs and biographies. Awards received include the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, The Frank O’Connor Short Story Award and the Ulysses Medal. Her most recent book is The Love Object: Selected Stories.

Edoardo Sanguineti was born in Turin in 1930. The Dedalus Press will publish a selection of his work, together with translations by Padraig J. Daly, later this year.

Edward Lee lives in Galway. His debut poetry collection, ‘Playing Poohsticks On Ha’penny Bridge’, was published last year by Spider Press. His second collection Sleep is due from the same publisher in 2011.

Edward Power lives near Waterford. He has written a short novel, The Sepia Zone. Recent short fiction has appeared in Canadian anthologies, Queer View Mirror 2 and Quickies (Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver).

Eileen Casey is originally from the midlands and now lives in Tallaght. Her poems and short stories have been widely published. Her work has also been featured on A Living Word and Sunday Miscellany on RTE Radio.

Eileen Myles is a poet who lives in New York. In 2010 OR Books published Inferno (a poet’s novel). Her website is www.eileenmyles.com.

Eileen Sheehan has been widely published in magazines including Poetry Ireland Review, The Shop, The Stinging Fly, Staple, The Rialto, Southward, The Cork Literary Review, The Kerry Anthology and I Am Of Kerry.

Eimear Ryan’s writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Dublin Review, Granta.com, gorse, and the anthologies The Long Gaze Back (New Island) and Town & Country (Faber). She is co-editor of the literary journal Banshee and lives in Cork.

Eithne Cavanagh lives in Dublin. Her poems have been widely published and broadcast on national and local radio. Her collection, Bone and Petals, was published by Swan Press.

Elaine Cosgrove is from the west of Ireland. Her debut collection of poems, ‘Transmissions’, is published by Dedalus Press. Elaine moved to Atlanta in 2019.

Elaine Feeney won the 2008 Cúirt Festival’s Poetry Grand Slam. Her chapbook, Indiscipline, was published by Maverick Press and in 2010 her first collection, Where’s Katie?, was published by Salmon Poetry. Elaine’s next collection, The Stinking Rose, is forthcoming from Salmon in 2013. Her work has been translated into Slovene, Italian and Lithuanian.

Elaine Gaston is from the north coast of Ireland. Her first collection ‘The Lie of the Land’ was published in 2015 when she received an ACE award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She was previously Highly Commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award and in the National Poetry Competition, UK.She lectures at Ulster University.

Diarmuid Fitzgerald was born in 1977. His first collection of haiku and tanka Thames Way was published in 2015 by Alba Publishing. Short lyric poems have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Cyphers, Boyne Berries and in It’s a Queer City: All the Same, an anthology of LGBT writing from Limerick. https://www.facebook.com/fitzwriter/ http://deeinireland2.wixsite.com/fitzwriter

Dimitra Xidous is the Featured Poet in our Spring 2014 issue. Her work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2013), Over The Edge New Writer of the Year (2013) and long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Competition (2011). She is co-founder and co-editor of The Pickled Body, an online international poetry journal. Her debut collection, Keeping Bees, is published by Doire Press.

Dizz Tate was born London and grew up in Orlando, Florida. Her short stories have appeared in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Dazed and Five Dials. Brutes, her first novel, will be published by Faber in February 2023.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual writer working both in Irish and English. Among her awards are the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Michael Hartnett Prize, and the Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary. www.DoireannNiGhriofa.com

Dominic Bennett was born in South Armagh in 1964. He has lived and worked in Belfast since 1983. He began writing fiction in 1997 and was short-listed in the Brian Moore Short Story Awards in 1 998.

Dominic Connell lives in Naas and has previously published poems in Boyne Berries, Crannóg, Revival and Abridged.

Donal O’Kelly is a Dublin playwright and actor living in County Leitrim. His plays
include Fionnuala, Little Thing Big Thing, Catalpa, The Cambria, Jimmy Gralton’s Dancehall, Vive La, Running Beast, Asylum! Asylum!, Operation Easter and the Prix Europa award-winning Francisco.

Dónal O’Sullivan is a native of Ardfield, West Cork. He has been published by Forward Press and in the anthology, Let’s Be Alone Together (Stinging Fly Press, 2008). In 2009, he was awarded a Creative Artist’s Bursary from Cork County Council towards the completion of his first novel.