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Martina Devlin
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Martina Devlin was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone. Her novels are Three Wise Men (London, Harper Collins, 2000); Be Careful What You Wish For (Harper Collins, 2001); Venus Reborn (Dublin, Poolbeg, 2003); Temptation (Poolbeg Press, 2004); Ship of Dreams (Poolbeg, 2007).
Her non-fiction includes the autobiographical The Hollow Heart: the story of how her desire to have a baby almost destroyed her life (London, Penguin Books, 2005).
She is also a journalist with the Irish Independent.
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Jean O'Brien
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Jean O’Brien was born in Dublin.
A founder member of the Dublin Writers’ Workshop, her collections are The Shadow Keeper (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1997); and Dangerous Dresses (Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2005). She is the winner of the Fish International Poetry Prize 2008.
She lives in Co. Laois.
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Brian Leyden
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Brian Leyden was born in Roscommon in 1960.
He has published a book of short stories, Departures (1992); and a novel, Death and Plenty (Dingle, Brandon, 1996). He has devised and performed a one-man stage show on W.B. Yeats called Experiments in Magic, and his RTE documentary, No Meadows in Manhattan, won a Jacobs Award in 1991, while his short stories won the RTE Francis McManus Short Story Award in 1988. He has also published a memoir, The Home Place (Dublin, New Island Books, 2002).
He lives in Co. Sligo.
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Patricia O'Reilly
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Patricia O’Reilly’s novels are Once Upon a Summer (Dublin, The Wolfhound Press, 2000); Felicity’s Wedding (London, Oldcastle Books, 2001); and Time and Destiny (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2003).
Her non-fiction publications are Dying with Love (Dublin, Veritas 1992); Writing for the Market (Cork, Mercier 1994); Earning Your Living from Home (Dublin, Marino 1996); Working Mothers (The Wolfhound Press 1997); and Writing for Success (Dublin, New Island Books, 2006).
She lives in Dublin.
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Noel Monahan
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Noel Monahan was born in Granard, Co Longford.
His collections are Opposite Walls (Galway, Salmon Poetry, 1991); Snowfire (Salmon Poetry, 1995); Curse of the Birds (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 2001); and The Funeral Game (Salmon Publishing, 2004).
In 2001 he won the SeaCat National Poetry Award, organised by Poetry Ireland. Also in 2001 he won the RTÉ P.J. O'Connor Award for his play Broken Cups. In 2002 he won the ASTI Achievements Award for his contribution to literature at home and abroad. Other awards include The Allingham Poetry Award, The Kilkenny Prize for Poetry, and the Irish Writers Union Award.
He lives in Cavan.
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Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969.
Her novels are Stirfry (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1994); Hood (Hamish Hamilton, 1995); Slammerkin (London, Virago, 2000); The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (Virago, 2002); Life Mask (Harcourt/Virago, 2004); and Landing, (New York, Harcourt, 2007).
Her short stories have been published as Touchy Subjects (Harcourt, 2006/Virago, 2006)
Her plays are I Know My Own Heart (1993) and Ladies and Gentlemen (1996, published Dublin, New Island Books, 1998), both produced by Glasshouse Productions, Dublin.
She has also edited What Sappho Would Have Said, an anthology of women’s love poetry; Kissing the Witch, A Book of Fairytales for Adults (Hamish Hamilton, 1997); Poems between Women (Columbia University Press, 1997); and The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories (London, Constable Robinson Publishing, 1999).
She lives in Canada.
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