David Nash was born in County Cork, and currently lives in London. He has had poems published in several magazines and anthologies, and is working on his first collection.

David Toms lives and works in Oslo, Norway. His most recent book is Northly, out now from Turas Press.

David Wheatley is a poet and critic. His books include Thirst, Misery Hill and Mocker (The Gallery Press). He is a lecturer at the University of Hull, England.

David Whippman is in his fifties. He works as a psychiatric nurse and writes stories as well as poems. He lives in South Devon in England.

David Woelfel is originally from Boston. He has previously published poetry, fiction and book reviews in this magazine.

Dawn Watson is a writer from Belfast. She has been published in The Moth, The
Vacuum and The Honest Ulsterman. Dawn is a former tabloid sub-editor.

Dean Browne lives in Cork. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming from Southword, POETRY, The Tangerine, The Well Review and elsewhere.

Daniel Bennett’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, most recently in The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017 from Eyewear Books. He is also the author of the novel, All the Dogs. You can read more of his work online at http://absenceclub.tumblr.com/

Daniel Seery is from Ballymun, Dublin. He has had short stories published in a number of collections and has worked on an online drama which was short-listed for a competition with an Irish television station. He has recently finished a novel.

Danielle McLaughlin’s short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press. In 2019, she was a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient, and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her first novel, The Art of Falling, was published in 2021 by John Murray and was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2022.

Danny Denton is a writer from Cork, Ireland. His first novel, The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow will be published by Granta Books in January 2018.

Daragh Breen was born in Cork in 1970. He has three published poetry collections, Across the Sound: shards from the history of an island (November Press, 2003), Whale (November Press, 2010) and What the Wolf Heard (Shearsman Books, 2016).

Darragh Cotter is from west Limerick. This is his first published story. He lives
in Bucharest.

Darran McCann is an author and playwright from Armagh. His debut novel, After the Lockout, was published in 2012. He works in the Seamus Heaney Centre where he Convenes the MA in Creative Writing. He lives in Belfast with his family.

Dave Coates is a PhD candidate at Edinburgh University, writing on Louis MacNeice and contemporary Northern Irish poetry. He writes regularly at davepoems.wordpress.com and tweets @davepoems.

Dave Lordan is an Irish poet working in text, performance, video, audio, and community creativity, inspired by oral and singer-songwriter traditions and by resistance to empire, capital, and human domestication.

Dave Rudden is the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller Knights of the
Borrowed Dark. He enjoys cats, adventure and being cruel to fictional children.

Dave Tynan is a writer and director from Dublin. His short films include Just Saying and Rockmount, which won the IFTA for best short in 2015. This is his first published short story.

David Albahari was born in 1948. A writer and translator from Serbia, he is the author of nine novels and eight collections of short stories. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. Translations into English include Götz and Meyer (Harvill, 2004) and Snow Man (Douglas & McIntyre, 2005). He moved to Calgary, Canada, in 1994, and still lives there.

David Butler’s third published novel, ‘City of Dis’ (New Island), was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2015. His second poetry collection, All the Barbaric Glass, is due out in March 2017 from Doire Press.

David Clarke was born in London in 1981 by mistake. He just completed a BA in English, Media and Cultural Studies at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

Collin Higgins spent time teaching in China after graduating with a degree in Philosophy. He currently spends as much time in west Kerry as possible, and is working on his first novel.

Colm Breathnach is an Irish-language poet, novelist and translator. He has won the principal poetry prize at the annual Conradh na Gaeilge Oireachtas Literary Competitions four times and in 1999 he was awarded the Butler Prize for poetry by the Irish American Cultural Institute.

Colm Keegan from Clondalkin, Dublin, has been shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award four times. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the International Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. His poetry collection ‘Don’t Go There’ is available from salmonpoetry.com.

Colm Liddy, in protest at the recent cutbacks, is working to rule. Hence there can be no question of him performing any non-contracted duties, like the composition of a fifty word bio. Interested parties should complain to their local public representative. And/or stick his name into Google…

Colum McCann is the award-winning author of five novels and two collections of short stories. His most recent novel, Let the Great World Spin, won worldwide acclaim, including The 2009 National Book Award, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, as well as a literary award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at Hunter College in New York.

Conor Cleary is from Tralee, County Kerry and lives in Belfast. He has recently graduated with an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University, Belfast, where he was the recipient of the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre MA Award. His poetry has previously been published in Icarus, The Tangerine, and Poetry Ireland Review. He was a participant in the 2017 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series.

Conor McManus was born in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, and now lives in Cork. His short story ‘The Red Baron’ was published in Force 10 in 2008. He has also written for Construct Ireland and Architecture Ireland. ‘The Captain and The Rat’ was broadcast on RTÉ’s Arena. He reads regularly at the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry events in Cork.

Craig Gibson is a thirty-one-year-old writer from Belfast. His short stories have been published in Wordlegs, Prole and 30 under 30. He won the Sean Dunne Young Writers Award in 2012.