was born in Africa to Irish parents and now lives in Galway, Ireland. Her first novel Belios was published by The Lilliput Press. Her first full poetry collection Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma was published by Arlen House and chosen as book of the year by Scotland On Sunday  newspaper. Somewhere in Minnesota, ( Arlen House, 2011) was her debut short fiction collection, and the title story was first published in Faber and Faber’s New Irish Short Stories (2011). Her second short story collection titled Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin ( Arlen House 2014) was chosen as book of the year by The Irish Times newspaper.

was born in 1954, received her MA from The University of New Hampshire and was The Assistant Director of The Robert Frost Place. She was a long time resident of Northern Ireland and is now living in Donegal. She is the co–founder of The Poets’ House and programme director for their MA in Creative Writing. She is widely published with poems appearing in Stand, Force 10, Janus, Writing Women, Cúirt Journal, The Irish University Graduate Review, The New Orleans Review, Fortnight, US1, and The University of California Review.  Her first book Settler was published in 1995 by Salmon Poetry.

grew up on a farm near Birdhill in County Tipperary, Ireland. His poetry has been published in a wide range of literary journals in Ireland and abroad. He is the author of a chapbook, Nothing To Write Home About (Derg House), a comic narrative in verse, Hairy Tale Of Clare (East Clare Telecottage) and a memoir in prose and poems, Saved To Memory: Lost To View (Limerick Writers Centre).

has published three collections with Salmon Poetry, the most recent of which, The God Thing, appeared in 2013. Bone Fire will be published by Salmon in April, 2016.  She lives in Ireland, where she and her husband Kevin Higgins have coordinated the Over the Edge readings series since 2003. She is the editor of the 2013 anthology Over the Edge: The First Ten Years.