Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford. She runs an online international poetry event, Just to Say, sponsored by Jacar Press. In 2021, she was chosen for Poetry Ireland's Introductions series and awarded an Arts Council Literature Bursary. Her poems have appeared in many poetry journals and chronicle a history of eating disorders, addressing the pressures to conform to ideals of appearance and size. Her first collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in May 2022 by The Gallery Press.

Helen Hutchinson is a poet, Traveller and a founder member of Pavee Point. Much of her work reflects the Traveller way of life and the discrimination that her community has suffered. As she explains, the scourge of suicide disproportionately affects the Traveller community and has touched her own family. Her poem No Stronger Love was awarded third prize at the 2020 in a competition run by the Cercle Litérraire Irlandais and she is working on her first collection.

Photo; Helen Hutchinson and Olivia O'Leary