Donal Mahoney, one of many nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, has had poetry and fiction appear in various publications in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his work can be found at http:// eyeonlifemag.com/the-poetry-locksmith/donal-mahoney-poet.html Alice Kinsella is an Irish writer. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of publications, including Headspace magazine, The Fem literary magazine, Poethead, Icarus, Headstuff, The Galway Review, The Sunday Independent, Skylight47, Boyne Berries, A New Ulster, and The Ofi Press. Her work has been shortlisted for several competitions, the Annual Bangor Poetry Competition 2016, Hungry Hills Wild Atlantic Words Poetry Competition 2016, the Jonathan Swift Awards, and the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition 2016. Her play The Passing debuted during the Liberties Festival 2016, and will return to stage in May 2017 as a part of Little Shadow Theatre's New Irish Playbook. For more information visit aliceekinsella.com Kevin Graham’s poems have appeared in various journals including The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. A chapbook has appeared from Smithereens Press. He is working on his first collection. Kaddy Benyon’s first collection, Milk Fever, won the Crashaw Prize and was published by Salt in 2012. She is also a Granta New Poet and has recently completed a residency at the Polar Museum in Cambridge where she wrote and is currently editing her second collection, Call Her Alaska.
Allis Hamilton grew up in a farming district, in rural Australia, that seemed to be almost swallowed by sky. In Australia, some of her poems live in: Australian Poetry Journal, Southerly, Plumwood Mountain (online), Flightpath, an anthology about migrating birds, forthcoming from Hallowell Press; and in Ireland: The Caterpillar, Skylight 47.