Alan Gillis is from County Down in Northern Ireland. He lives in Scotland, where he is a professor of modern poetry at the University of Edinburgh. Over Here (Gallery Press, 2025) is his sixth book of poems, following The Readiness (Picador, 2020), and the Gallery Press books Scapegoat (2014), Here Comes the Night (2010), Hawks and Doves (2007), and Somebody, Somewhere (2004). He has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in 2014. Author of the critical work Irish Poetry of the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 2005), he was editor of Edinburgh Review (2010–2015), co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012), and he is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Paul Muldoon. 

Dorothea Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including the forthcoming MEMORY (Semiotext(e)).

Scott McKendry is from north Belfast. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, The Stinging Fly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. His pamphlet, Curfuffle (Lifeboat, 2019), was a Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice. McKendry won a Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2019. In 2024, he was chosen by Paul Muldoon as the Ireland Chair of Poetry’s Poet of Promise. His debut collection, GUB, is out now with Corsair (Little, Brown).

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for 35 years. He is the author of 15 collections of poetry, including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024, he was elected a saoi of the Aosdána, an Irish fellowship of artists.

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. He is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound, and his ten books cover poetry, essays, memoir, and theology.  With publications in the Harvard Review, Ploughsares, Poetry Ireland Review, and many others, alongside a profile in the New Yorker, he is an in-demand speaker and contributor to artistic and civic gatherings. 2025 saw the publication of the bestselling Kitchen Hymns, a volume of original poems, and the anthology 44 Poems on Being with Each Other; A Poetry Unbound Collection. He lives in Belfast and New York City.

Grace Wilentz was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. A graduate of Harvard University, with postgraduate degrees from Oxford University and University College Dublin, she moved to Ireland in 2005 to study the Irish language and became an Irish citizen in 2015. Her first collection, The Limit of Light, was published by The Gallery Press in October 2020 and went on to be named a book of the year in the Irish Independent and the Irish Times. She has received support from the Arts Council, including a literature bursary and a Next Generation Award. Her most recent collection, Harmony (Unfinished), was published by The Gallery Press in October 2024. She is the inaugural writer in residence at Notre Dame in Dublin. 

Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of 16 books, most recently Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. From 2003 until 2013, he served as editor of Poetry, where he tripled the circulation and won two National Magazine Awards. He is currently the Clement-Muehl professor of the arts at Yale Divinity School.

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