Susan Lindsay
has had two collections of poetry published, Whispering the Secrets and Fear Knot (Doire Press, 2011, 2013). She was a founding co–editor of Skylight 47, a poetry broadsheet, and read for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2011. She facilitates Conversations mediated by poetry — most recently at Cúirt International Festival of Literature, 2015.
John Liddy
was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1954. He is the founding editor, along with Jim Burke, of The Stony Thursday Book and has published many collections of poetry. His most recent is The Secret Heart of Things (Revival Press, 2014). He was Limerick City of Culture Poet in Residence for July 2014.
Brian Kirk
is a poet, short story writer, playwright, and novelist from Dublin, Ireland. His work has appeared in the Sunday Tribune, Crannog, The Stony Thursday Book, Revival, Boyne Berries, Wordlegs and various anthologies. He won the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award for Poetry in 2014, the Bailieborough Poetry Prize 2015, and The Creative Flow Poet of the Year Award 2015 at Dundalk FM. His poetry and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies in Ireland, the UK, Germany, India, and the USA His novel, The Rising Son, is his first foray into literature for a younger audience.
Kevin Kiely
is a poet, novelist, literary critic, American Fulbright Scholar, and Ph.D. in modernist and postmodernist poetry from University College Dublin. His commentaries on literature, the arts and culture appear in main stream media such as Village Magazine (Ireland). Selected publications include, Quintesse (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1985), Mere Mortals (Poolbeg /Odell & Adair, 1989), A Horse Called El Dorado (O’Brien Press, 2005), Breakfast with Sylvia (Lagan Press, Belfast 2006) awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry, and SOS Lusitania (O’Brien Press, 2012). For more, wwwkevinkiely.net.

