Frances Browner grew up in Dublin, lived in New York for twenty years and now resides in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Her poems have appeared in Skylight 47, Tales from the Forest, Poems on the Edge, The Ogham Stone, Irish Examiner, Ink Sweat & Tears, A New Ulster, Cold Coffee Stand, Bray Arts Journal, Poetry24, Boyne Berries and on Limerick’s Poetry Trail, Poetry Walls and ‘Bring your Limerick to Limerick’ finals. Her Micro-Chapbook of fifteen poems, Selfies, was launched online by Ghost City Press, Syracuse, New York, in their summer series, July 2019. She has had short stories and memoir pieces published and broadcast on radio and currently tutors creative writing and history with Dun Laoghaire/Dublin ETB. Frances facilitates the weekly workshop, Scríobh Arís, for Greystones Cancer Support and the monthly Poets Parlour open-mic in Greystones. Her poetry collection Roots and Wings was published by Revival Press in 2019.

Michael Durack was born on a farm near Birdhill, Co. Tipperary. He was educated at Nenagh CBS and UCD and worked as a teacher for 36 years. His work has been published in journals such as The Blue Nib, Skylight 47, The Cafe Review, The Stony Thursday Book and Poetry Ireland Review as well as airing on local and national radio. With his brother, Austin, he collaborates on a programme of poetry and guitar music, and they have produced two albums, The Secret Chord and Going Gone. His memoir in prose and poems, Saved to Memory: Lost to View, was issued in 2016 by Limerick Writers’ Centre Publishing, and in September 2017 his first poetry collection, Where It Began, was published by Revival Press. His most recent collection Flipsides was published by Revival Press last year. Michael now lives in Ballina, Co. Tipperary

Kieran Beville is a former teacher of English and History. He was also a tutor in the Irish History Department of UCC in the 1980s and lecturer in Masterclasses at the Intercultural Studies Department of Tyndale Theological seminary, Amsterdam, where he taught Hermeneutics and Postmodernism, 2011-2016. Beville is author of Write Now – A Practical Guide to Becoming a Writer (Limerick Writers’ Centre, 2019) and the novel, Bohemian Fire (pen-name Austen K. Blake, Bohemian Books, 2017). He has published a substantial number of articles (100+) published in various newspapers, journals and magazines as well as poetry in Cyphers, Crossways, A New Ulster, Ogham Stone, The Stony Thursday Book, The Sunday Tribune, The Galway Review, Live Encounters, Pandemic and The Phare Anthology, 2021. His collection of poetry, Fool’s Gold, was published by Revival Press (2019), with an introduction by poet John Liddy, cover design by artist John Shinnors and illustrations by artist Kate Hennessy. His book, Pulling Back the Clouds is a short biography of Mike Kelly, collector of the die-cast model aircraft display at Shannon Airport (LWC, 2020). His second volume of poetry, Soul Songs, was published by Revival Press (2020) with cover design by Syra Larkin and illustrations by Kathy Tiernan. Voices from the Void is Kieran Beville’s third collection of poetry with cover by John Shinnors is due out shortly.