Moyra Donaldson is a poet and creative writing facilitator living on the Ards Peninsula in Co Down. In 2019, Moyra received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 2025 an online pamphlet, Abridged 0-112 Don’t Speak To Strangers, was commissioned. She has published 11 collections, the latest being The Thirteenth Moon (Doire Press, 2026). Her numerous commissions and collaborations include Blood Horses, with the artist Paddy Lennon (Caesura Press, 2018). 

Connie Voisine is the author of 6 books of poetry, most recently The Bower, which she began writing during a Fulbright Fellowship in Northern Ireland. Her writing appears in Poetry, The New Yorker, and other magazines and she was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2021, and in 2025 she received the Governor's award for Excellence in the Arts. Voisine lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Belfast, Northern Ireland.