Adam Wyeth was born in Sussex, England, 1978. He was a prize winner of the Fish International Poetry Competition, 2009, and a runner-up of the Arvon International Poetry Competition, 2006. His poems have been anthologised in The Best of Irish Poetry anthology, 2010, Something Beginning with P and The Arvon 25th Anniversary Anthology. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Stinging Fly, The SHOp, Southword, Poetry London and Magma. He was a featured poet in Agenda and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, 2007. He has made two films on poetry, A Life in the Day of Desmond O’Grady, first screened at the Cork Film Festival, 2004; and a full length feature, Soundeye: Cork International Poetry Festival, 2005. He runs various creative writing and poetry appreciation workshops and is a member of the Poetry Ireland Writers in Schools Scheme. His first collection, Silent Music, is forthcoming from Salmon in 2011. He lives in Co. Cork.

Jennifer Matthews was born in Columbia, Missouri (USA) in 1976. After studying for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria she moved to Cork, Ireland in 2003 and continues to live there now. Aside from book reviews for Southword Journal, she also writes poetry and has been published in Mslexia, Revival and Poetry Salzburg. Additionally, she recently read her work at the New Writers Showcase in the Heaventree Poetry Festival in Coventry, UK.

Landa Wo is an Angolan-French poet. Born in 1972 in Saint-Etienne (France) he is a graduate of the French education system. He was forced to leave his native country in 1999 for a ten-year exile, his status as one of the so-called “visible minorities” making it difficult for him to find work. Meanwhile, Yeats’ Ireland had become the Celtic Tiger and offered more career opportunities to graduates, especially to those from a minority group who were denied them in France. Wo has used his writing both as a tool to integrate into Irish society, and as a weapon. He has won numerous awards such as 1st prize in Metro Éireann Writing Competition (2007) and the Eist Poetry competition (2006), as well as 3rd place in the French section of the international poetry competition, Féile Filíochta (2005). His imagination is coloured by twenty years’ experience of life in Gabon and in Congo. He is a member of the European Academy of Poetry.

Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire in 1951, and brought up in North London. He went to a boarding school in Surrey, to university in Reading and Oxford, and lived and worked in Sussex, Swansea and other parts of London. In 1980 he moved to County Kilkenny with his partner Jane. At first they shared a cottage with friends, then bought a cottage of their own in Tobernabrone, where they’ve lived happily ever since. His collections include The Hen Ark (Peterloo/Salmon 1990), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; Catching The Light (Peterloo/Lagan 1997); a chapbook, The Home Fire (Abbey Press 1998) and Whereabouts (Peterloo/Abbey Press 2005). He was Editor of Poetry Ireland for 1999. Even So: New & Selected Poems was published by the Dedalus Press in autumn 2008.

Panchali Mukherji was born in Calcutta, India in 1973. She was educated in India and the USA, and has obtained two Master’s degrees, in the fields of Literature and Communications. She has worked in advertising and as a qualitative research consultant, specialising in the analysis of consumer psychology. She has travelled extensively across India and other countries and been exposed to diverse geographical and psychological landscapes, which have influenced her writing. She has also studied film-making and is engaged in developing scripts and ideas for documentaries.

Panchali now resides in Dublin, Ireland. She has just finished writing her first collection of poetry, and is working on a book of poems for children. She has recently been published by Dedalus Press in the anthology Landing Places and has read her work at the 2010 Dublin Book Festival.