Mícheál McCann is from Derry City and now lives in Belfast where he works as a teacher. His debut collection with Gallery Press was Devotion (2024), and his second collection, Lives of Saints was published in May 2026. He studied at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s where he was chosen as the 2024 Publishing Fellow. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Manchester Review, Banshee, The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly, and anthologised in Queering the Green (Life Boat Press, 2021) and Romance Options (Dedalus Press 2023).

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021) and Ghostgirl (Donegal Archives, 2023). Her most recent collection, Hymn to All the Restless Girls (The Gallery Press) was published in 2025. Her awards include the Irish Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award, The Markievicz Award, The Kavanagh Fellowship and a Hawthornden Foundation Residency Award (NYC).

Grace Wilentz was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. She now lives in Dublin. A graduate of Harvard University, with postgraduate degrees from Oxford University and University College Dublin, she has published poems in The American Poetry Journal, Cyphers, The Harvard Advocate, The Irish Times and The Seneca Review. Grace’s first collection, The Limit of Light, was published by The Gallery Press in 2020 and her second collection, Harmony (Unfinished) was published in 2024.