Contributors
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"Queenstown. County Cork, Ireland." Photochrom Print. Cover image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-09859.
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Thomas Lynch is the author of five books of poetry, a book of short stories, and three collections of essays. This is his first published play. He lives in Michigan and Moveen, County Clare, Ireland.
Prose
Andrew Fox is from Dublin. His most recent stories appeared in the Dublin Review. He won third prize in this year's RTE Francis McManus Competition and is a 2011 Arts Council bursary recipient. He lives in Massachusetts.
Kathleen Murray lives in Dublin. A number of her short stories have appeared in journals such as The Stinging Fly and in anthologies of Irish writing. She was the winner of the 2007 Fish International Short Story Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Davy Byrne Award. She received an Arts Council bursary in 2010. She is working on a first collection of short stories.
Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a Galway-based fiction writer and poet. She has three collections of poetry, the most recent being Portrait of the Artist with a Red Car (Templar). Her debut novel, You (New Island), was called "a heart-warmer" by the Irish Times and "a gem" by the Irish Examiner, and her third short-story collection, Nude, was shortlisted for the UK's Edge Hill Prize.
Aiden O'Reilly spent seven years in Germany and Poland. He studied mathematics and did research into a QM system before concentrating on writing. He has worked variously as a mathematics lecturer, translator, IT teacher, and technical writer. In the six years since he returned from abroad, his work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, The Stinging Fly, and The Dublin Review, among others.
William Wall is the author of three poetry collections, one short fiction collection, and four novels, the most recent of which, This Is the Country, was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. His most recent poetry collection is Ghost Estate. He has won and been shortlisted for many prizes. He lives in Cork City, Ireland.
Poetry
Deanie Rowan Blank is the recipient of a W. B. Yeats Pierce Loughran Scholarship. Her poetry has appeared in Edgar Literary Magazine, Main [End Page 191] Channel Voices, Potpourri, Expressions, and elsewhere, and has been performed by the East Haddam Stage Company. She was a Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Tenth Anniversary Prize finalist.
Colm Breathnach works as a translator in the Irish Parliament. He has published six collections of poetry, a selected edition, and a novel. His work has been awarded the Butler Prize by the Irish American Cultural Institute and has been translated into English, Scottish Gaelic, German, Italian, Slovenian, and Romanian. His poetry collection Dánta agus dánta eile (Poems and other poems) is forthcoming.
Lucy Brennan is from Ireland and lives in Canada. Her poetry has been published in Canada, Ireland, and the UK. She is author of the book of poetry Migrants All (watershedBooks), as well as a CD of stories and poems, The Tellings and Mad Sweeney, and a play, Daughter of the House.
Sandra Bunting is presently working as an editor for Gaelóg Press and is on the editorial board of Crannóg magazine. She previously worked at the National University of Ireland-Galway at the Academic Writing Centre and facilitated creative writing seminars there.
Philip Casey has published three novels and four collections of poems. He curates Irish Writers Online and Irish Culture Guide. He currently is writing nonfiction and lives in Dublin.
Patrick Chapman has published five books of poems, most recently The Darwin Vampires (Salmon), the title poem of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He wrote the short story collection The Wow Signal, (Bluechrome); Burning the Bed, an award-winning film; and an audio play, Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks.
Michael Corrigan has been writing for many years but only recently began submitting work for publication. He works in adult disability and social justice services and lives with Trish and dogs, cats, and birds in County Kildare.
Colin Dardis is an Ireland-based poet, artist, and musician. He is editor of Speech Therapy...
