Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Simon Alderwick is a poet from Surrey. His work is featured or forthcoming in Eye Flash, Seiren, Dust, Near Window, Whatever Keeps The Lights On and Riot Act, among others. He is on Twitter @SimonAlderwick.

Kara Lynn Amiot is an emerging writer from Canada, and her poetry was most recently published through Revolt Magazine and the Unpublishable Zine.

Dylan Benjamin is a writer and poet from the North of England whose work has featured in Door Is A Jar Magazine, Misery Tourism, The Showbear Family Circus, Detritus Online and more. He should be preparing his upcoming pamphlet but you can currently find him procrastinating on Twitter @_DylanBenjamin.

Aoife Bradshaw studied English Literature and Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin and holds an MA in Screenwriting for Film and Television. She was awarded the Writers Guild of Ireland Award for Screenwriting in 2018 and has a background in journalism, contributing to Hotpress, Go Rail and Enterprise among other publications.

Clive Collins is the author of two novels, The Foreign Husband (Marion Boyars) and Sachiko’s Wedding (Marion Boyars/Penguin Books). Misunderstandings, a collection of short stories, was joint-winner of the Macmillan Silver PEN Award in 1994. Carried Away and Other Stories is available from Red Bird Chapbooks.

Lorna Collins is a Peer Support Worker with Oxford Health NHS eating disorder service. She is Patient Representative at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (eating disorders). She leads research in Arts in Health, after her PhD as a scholar at Cambridge University. She writes articles in several newspapers and journals.

Deirdre McKernan Crosby lives in Greystones Co. Wicklow. Her first published poem, Uninvited Guest appeared in the Bray Arts Journal in 2019. Her work is also published in Boyne Berries, The Blue Nib and Pandemic.ie. Deirdre wrote There Will Be Time – Cancer & Covid-19 which will be preserved by the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at UCD Library.

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor and sound artist, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work has been listed in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, and the Saboteur Awards, as well as being published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA. Previous collections include The Dogs of Humanity (Fly on the Wall Press, 2019), the x of y (Eyewear, 2018), Post-Truth Blues (Locofo Chaps/Moria Books, 2017) and Dōji: A Blunder (Lapwing, 2013).

Annie Deppe is the author of three books of poems, Sitting in the Sky and Wren Cantata from Summer Palace Press, and Night Collage, forthcoming in 2021 from Arlen House. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, and The Forward Book of Poetry 2004. She lives in Connemara.

Maurice Devitt is the winner of the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland and Poems for Patience competitions, he has been nominated for Pushcart, Forward and Best of the Net Prizes and been runner-up in the Cuirt New Writing Prize, Interpreter’s House Poetry Competition and

the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition. He published his debut collection Growing Up in Colour with Doire Press.

Kate Ennals has published poems and short stories in a range of literary and on-line journals. Her first collection of poetry At The Edge was published in 2015. Her second collection, Threads, was published in April 2018. Kate also runs At The Edge, Cavan, a literary reading evening. Her blog can be found at www.kateennals.com.

Attracta Fahy lives in Co.Galway, a Psychotherapist, with three children, completed her MA in Writing NUIG ‘17. She was October winner in Irish Times New Irish Writing 2019, Pushcart, and Best of Web nominee, shortlisted for Over The Edge New Writer, and Allingham Poetry, a featured reader at Over The Edge Reading in Galway City Library. Fly on the Wall Poetry published her debut chapbook collection Dinner in the Fields, in March ‘20.

Mary Melvin Geoghegan has five collections of poetry published. Her most recent As Moon and Mother Collide with Salmon Poetry (2018). Her work has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Sunday Times, The Stinging Fly, The Moth, The Stony Thursday Book, Crannóg, Skylight47, Orbis, Boyne Berries and Cyphers, among others.

Richard W. Halperin is an Irish-U.S. dual national living in Paris. His poetry is published by Salmon/Cliffs of Moher and by Lapwing/Belfast. His work is part of University College Dublin's Irish Poetry Reading Archive.

Ross Hoey is a 26-year-old writer from Northern Ireland. After attending medical school, training at drama school, and working as an actor for some years, he has turned to his real passion for writing. He had his first publication this year with Haiku 90 in Covidioms by Poetry NI.

Miceál Kearney, 40. Living and working in the West of Ireland. He began writing at the turn of the century. He’s published 2 collections of poetry. Inheritance; Doire Press, 2008 and The Inexperienced Midwife; Arlen House, 2016. He also has had 4 short plays staged.

Sven Kretzschmar hails from Germany. His work has been published widely in Europe and overseas, e.g. in Writing Home. The ‘New Irish’ Poets (Dedalus Press, 2019) and Turangalîla-Palestine (Dairbhre, 2019). New work is forthcoming in Voices 2020 (Cold River Press), 100 Words of Solitude (Rare Swan Press) and others.

Jorge Leiva lives in Galway and is originally from South Spain. Some of his work has appeared in Skylight 47, The Galway Advertiser and Pendemic.ie. In 2019 he was long listed in the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition.

Siobhán Mc Laughlin is a poet from Co Donegal in Ireland. She is an English literature graduate and creative writing facilitator. Her poems have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, The Ekphrastic Review, Poetry 24, Quince Magazine and Donegal Daily's poetry series: We Are the Poets. She also has poems forthcoming in The Paperclip, The Poetry Village and Trouvaille Review. She shares her love of poetry at www.a-poem-a-day-project.blogspot.com Twitter: @siobhan347.

Stephen McNulty is a Mayo man trapped in Galway. An attendee of the Over the Edge poetry workshop, his poems have appeared in Boyne Berries, ROPES and Vox Galvia.

Polly Richardson Munnelly is Dublin born poet, currently writing in Dingle, Co. Kerry. She runs the Bull’s Arse Writers Group Navan remotely and Tuesday’s Zoomers. She has been published both nationally and internationally. Her debut collection Winter’s Breath is out and available on Amazon. She is currently working on her second collection. John Noonan’s work has been published in many anthologies and magazines including Poetry Ireland Review, Crannóg, Skylight 47, Red Poppy Review and Pinewood Review, Revival Press, Boyne Berries and North West Words. Has been shortlisted for awards and he won the Goldsmith Award.

Jean O’Brien is currently working on her 6th collection (Salmon Poetry). She is an awardwinning poet and is published regularly both in print and online. She was awarded a Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship and holds an M. Phil in cw/poetry from Trinity College, Dublin. She currently tutors in cw/poetry. www.jeanobrien.ie.

Nessa O’Mahony lives in Dublin. She has published five volumes of poetry, the most recent being The Hollow Woman and the Island (Salmon Poetry 2019). She teaches creative writing for The Open University and American College, Dublin.

Bernard Pearson’s work appears in many publications, including Aesthetica Magazine, The Edinburgh Review, Crossways, North West Words and FourxFour. In 2017 a selection of his poetry In Free Fall was published by Leaf Press. In 2019 he won second prize in The Aurora Prize for Writing.

Liz Chadwick Pywell is a poet from York, North Yorkshire. She is particularly interested in listening to and representing the voices of women who have been ignored or drowned out in history, literature and mythology.

David Ratclifffe is poet, playwright and short story writer from the north west of England. He has been published in a number of magazines both on-line and in print. In 2016 his poem ‘Home Straight’ featured at the Fermoy International Festival. The stage play ‘Intervention’ was produced for World Peace Day.

Antoinette Rock lives in Cavan. Her poems have appeared in The London Reader, Windows Authors and Artists, The Moth, North West Words, Skylight 47, and other anthologies. Antoinette was honourably commended in the Blue Nib Chap Book Contest and commended by Happenstance Poetry and Westport Poetry Prize and shortlisted in Bangor Poetry Competition.

Gillie Robic was born in India and lives in London. Her poems have appeared in the UK and the US. Her two collections, Swimming Through Marble and Lightfalls, were published by Live Canon in 2016 and 2019.

Gerry Stewart is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection Post-Holiday Blues was published by Flambard Press, UK. Hedgehog Poetry Press will publish her collection Totems in 2020. Her writing blog can be found at http://thistlewren.blogspot.fi/ and @grimalkingerry on Twitter.

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan is an emerging writer from Ebonyi state, Nigeria. He’s a penultimate medical laboratory science student who explores medicine in the day and worships literature at night. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in several literary journals; both online and printed. He was the winner of 2018, FUNAI CREW Literary Contest.

Anne Tannam has published two poetry collections; Take This Life (WordOnTheStreet 2011) and Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon Poetry 2017), with a third, Twentysix Letters of a New Alphabet forthcoming with Salmon in 2021. For more information on Anne’s poetry visit www.annetannampoetry.ie.

Giles L. Turnbull is a blind poet living in south Wales. His work has appeared in Poetry Wales, Acumen, Three Drops from a Cauldron, and Nine Arches Press, amongst others. His debut pamphlet, Dressing Up, is published by Cinnamon Press.

Patricia Walsh was born in the parish of Burnfort, Co Cork,and educated at University College Cork, graduating with an MA in Archaeology. Her poetry has been published in Stony Thursday, Southword, Narrator International, Third Point Press, Revival Journal, Seventh Quarry; Hesterglock Press, The Quarryman, Unlikely Stories, and Otherwise Engaged.

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