Cormac Lally is a father, husband, and poet from Tullamore now living in Skibbereen, west Cork. He is the current Munster Slam and previous Leinster Slam Championship winner. He has published two collections Scribbles, Dribbles and Homegrown Nibbles and Too Busy Dancing. He earns a living writing poetry for best men, brides, and grooms through his website bespokeweddingspeeches.com.

Deirdre Kessler is Prince Edward Island poet laureate, 2016–2018, and is author of two dozen books for adults and children and three collections of poetry, including Afternoon Horses. She teaches creative writing, children’s literature, and the course on L.M. Montgomery at the University of Prince Edward Island. DeirdreKessler.com.

Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin. He co–founded New Writers’ Press in 1967. His early poetry is collected in Sole Glum Trek (1967), Watches (1968), Pentahedron (1972) and The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine (1976). Later poetry is collected in Stone f loods (1995), Syzygy and Without Asylum (1998). His most recent works are Courts of Air and Earth (2006, Shearsman) and What’s in Store (2006, The Gig). He is also a Fulbright Scholar and a member of Aosdana and is currently Writer–in–Residence at the Munster Literature Centre.

Clara Hsu practices the art of multi–dimensional being: mother, musician, purveyor of Clarion Music Center (1982–2005), traveler, translator, and poet. Her first book of poems, Mystique, received honorable mention at the 2010 San Francisco Book Festival. A book of short stories, Babouche Impromptu and Other Moroccan Sketches was completed in 2008 and published by Poetry Hotel Press. Her work can be found in New Millennium Writings (2012), The Haight–Ashbury Literary Journal, and the internet journals Cha, The Other Voices International Project, and Red River Review. She co–hosts the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show and, with Jack Foley, she co–edits Poetry Hotel Press.