Leeanne Quinn was born in 1978 in Drogheda, Co. Louth. Her debut collection of poetry, Before You, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012. The collection was highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013.

Native of Tullamore, the author Neil Donnelly has had three plays, The Silver Dollar Boys, Upstarts, and The Duty Master, performed at the Abbey Theatre. He was Writer-in-Residence in Mayo in 1993/94, Writer-in-Association, Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1995.

Paul McVeigh began as a playwright with shows performed at the Edinburgh Festival and London’s West End. His short stories have appeared on BBC Radio 3, 4 & 5, on Sky Arts TV and in Faber's Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, The Irish Times, The London Magazine and The Stinging Fly. His debut novel The Good Son won The Polari First Novel Prize and his work has been translated into seven languages. He is twice winner of The McCrea Literary Award.

Niamh McCann is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. Her interest is in the interweaving of fact and fiction, the overlapping layers of history and fable that are contained within the cultural and physical structures we construct. McCann works by drawing together different reference points and distilling them into a kind of sculptural poetry.

Theo Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953. He is a poet, novelist, prose writer, documentary screenwriter, editor, translator and broadcaster.