Nessa O’Mahony

NESSA O’MAHONY was born in Dublin and lives there. She won the National Women’s Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. She is the recipient of three literature bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, the most recent being in 2018. She has a PhD in Creative Writing […]
Alice Kinsella

ALICE KINSELLA was born in Dublin, raised in Mayo. She is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Flower Press and Sexy Fruit. Her work has appeared in Banshee, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, The North and Multipoetry Project Krakow, among others. She received a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College […]
Rafiq Kathwari

RAFIQ KATHWARI is the first non-Irish recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. He has lived most of his adult life in New York, but was born, as he puts it, “a Scorpio at midnight” in the disputed Kashmir Valley. He obtained an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University and a Masters in Political and […]
Moyra Donaldson

MOYRA DONALDSON is a poet and creative writing facilitator from County Down. She has published eight collections of poetry, including a Selected Poems and most recently, Carnivorous from Doire Press. Her awards include the Women’s National Poetry Competition, The Allingham Award, Cúirt New Writing Award, North West Words Poetry Award and the Belfast Year of […]
Michael J. Whelan

MICHAEL J. WHELAN joined the Irish Defence Forces in 1990, serving on tours of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper. He has received the General Officer Commanding Irish Air Corps Award, the Paul Tissandier Diploma and the Tallaght Person of the Year Award (Arts & Culture section). Michael’s poetry has been widely published, including in The Hundred […]
Miceál Kearney

MICEÁL KEARNEY lives in the west of Ireland, where he works on the family farm. He has been published in Ireland, England and America. He is the winner of the 2006 Cuisle Poetry Slam, the 2007 Baffle Bard, the 2007 Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam and the 2007 North Beach Poetry Nights’ Grand Slam. Inheritance is his first collection […]
Maurice Devitt

MAURICE DEVITT completed the MA in Poetry Studies at Mater Dei, won the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition and was placed or shortlisted in many other competitions including The Patrick Kavanagh Award, The Listowel Collection Competition and Cúirt New Writing Award. Selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions in 2016, he was a featured poet at the Poets in Transylvania […]
Louis Mulcahy

LOUIS MULCAHY, ceramic sculptor and potter, has three collections of poetry, one in Irish and two in English (An Sagart Publications, 2012, 2014, 2015). He has been shortlisted for many competitions, including the Listowel Collection Prize and the Listowel Individual Poem Prize and in 2016 he won the Munster Literature mentorship competition. Louis founded the bilingual […]
Linda McKenna

LINDA MCKENNA was brought up in Kinsealy in North County Dublin and educated at Malahide Community School, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Leicester. Following six years spent working in Leicester, she moved to Northern Ireland in 1993, and has lived in Downpatrick for over twenty years. Linda began writing in 2015 and has had […]
Kimberly Campanello

Kimberly Campanello is a dual Irish and American citizen. Her most recent project is MOTHERBABYHOME, a 796-page poetry-object comprising conceptual and visual poetry on the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Cambridge Literary Review, The White Review, Para•text, Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Wales, and Poetry Ireland Review. She is an inaugural Markievicz […]