ANNEMARIE NÍ CHURREÁIN is a poet from Donegal. She has been awarded literary fellowships by Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), Jack Kerouac House (Florida) and Hawthornden Castle (Scotland).

Danielle McLaughlin’s stories have appeared in various journals, newspapers and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Irish Times, Southword, The Penny Dreadful, Long Story Short and The Stinging Fly.

Dave Lordan is a renowned writer, teacher, editor and creativity-in
education advocate and the first writer to have won all three of
Ireland's national prizes for young poets.