Gavin McCrea's first novel, Mrs Engels (Scribe, 2015), was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, The Sisters Mao (Scribe, 2021), received high acclaim internationally. His first work of non-fiction, Cells (Scribe, 2022), was chosen as a book of the year by The Observer, The Irish Times and the Irish Independent, and was longlisted for the 2023 Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ literature.

Helen Cullen is an Irish writer and academic living in England. Her debut novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf, was published in 2018 by Penguin Random House in the UK and Ireland, published in the USA by Harper Collins in 2019 and in translation to numerous foreign markets. Described as "Enchanting, intriguing, deeply moving" by the Irish Times, the novel garnered Helen a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2018 Irish Book Awards.

Alice Kinsella is a writer from Mayo. She is the author of poetry pamplet Sexy Fruit (Broken Sleep, 2018), and her prose debut Milk (Picador, 2023) received critical acclaim. She edited Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis (Doire Press, 2021). Her poetry has been translated into Polish, Arabic, and Greek. Her poetry films have been screened in Australia, Greece, USA, and Iraq.