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Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland, although his family hails from County Mayo in the West of Ireland. A former researcher, he has, more recently, been teaching creative writing to adults. His poems appeared in many magazines and anthologies, both in Ireland and abroad. In 2003, he won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.
Afric McGlinchey is an Irish-born, multi-award-winning poet based in West Cork. Raised in several countries in Africa, she has a close affinity with that continent. Afric is a post-graduate of English Literature and film (University of Cape Town), and studied journalism at Rhodes University. Previous collections include ""The Lucky Star of Hidden Things"" and ""Ghost of the Fisher Cat"" (Salmon Poetry). Her d?but was further translated into Italian and published by L?Arcolaio. A consulting editor with The Inkwell Group and a creative writing facilitator, she also reviews for a number of journals. According to Vona Groarke, she ""...moves really beautifully between strangeness and familiarity. What's also particularly striking is the tone and register of the language and how the flow carries you along with it.""
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is a Chicago-based writer and educator. He is the author of "Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales," "NIV: 39 & 7" (both published by BlazeVOX), "Between" (Atropos), "ThirdSexPot" (Beard of Bees), and "Metastaesthetics" (Atropos). His work has been featured in the anthologies "Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism" and "Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts." Most recently his creative writing has appeared in "Scab", "Peculiar Mormyrid", "SurVision", and "BlazeVox Journal".
Gary Glauber is a New York-based poet, fiction writer, journalist, musician, and teacher. He has published two collections, "Small Consolations" (Aldrich Press, 2015) and "Worth the Candle" (Five Oaks Press, 2017), as well as a chapbook, "Memory Marries Desire" (Finishing Line Press, 2016). This book won James Tate Poetry Prize 2019.
George Kalamaras, a former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014-2016), is the author of fifteen books of poetry, eight of which are full-length, including "Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck", winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and "The Theory and Function of Mangoes" (2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. He is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990.
John Bradley is the author of "Erotica Atomica," "Agitprop," and "Everything in Motion, Everything at Rest." His poetry and prose have appeared in "Calibanonline," "Dispatches from the Poetry Wars," "Hotel Amerika," "SurVision," and other journals. He frequently reviews books of poetry for "Rain Taxi." This collection won James Tate Poetry Prize 2019.
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Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is "The Anatomical Venus" (May 2019). She edits the webzine "Ink Sweat and Tears" and teaches online for the UEA/NCW creative writing programme. A book of collage poems, "Hear What the Moon Told Me" is published by KFS. "Maps of the Abandoned City" is a sequence of her new poems, previously unpublished in book-form.
Tony Bailie is from Northern Ireland. He has had two previous collections published, "Coill" and "The Tranquillity of Stone", both by Lapwing Publications. Two novels, "The Lost Chord" and "ecopunks", were published by Lagan Press. His novella "A Verse To Murder" is available as an ebook. He works as a journalist, travel writer and environmental columnist for The Irish News in Belfast. The selection of poems included in this book won James Tate International Poetry Prize 2019.
Matthew Geden was born and brought up in the English midlands. In 1990, he moved to Kinsale in County Cork, where he now works as the Director of Kinsale Writing School. His collections of poetry include "Swimming to Albania" (Bradshaw Books, 2009) and "A Place Inside" (Dedalus Press, 2012). His translations from Guillaume Apollinaire were published as "Autumn" (Lapwing, 2003). In November 2019 he was Writer in Residence at Nanjing Literature Centre, China.