Sara Berkeley
Poet and fiction writer Sara Berkeley was born in Dublin in 1967 and now lives in the US. Her poetry collections are Penn (1986), Home Movie Nights (1989), Facts About Water, New and Selected Poems (1994) and Strawberry Thief (Gallery Press, 2005). A volume of stories, The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream, was published in 1991, and the novel Shadowing Hannah in 1999.

"The rich pleasures of this fourth collection derive from the skill with which Berkeley internalises this natural landscape [rural Northern California} as an emotional territory at once exotic and intimate, to be charted with wild surmise" - Selina Guinness, The Irish Times

Peter Fallon
Peter Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up on his uncle's farm near Kells, Co. Meath. The founder and publisher of The Gallery Press, he edited, with Derek Mahon, the best-selling anthology The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. His own selected poems, News of the World, was published in 1993, with an expanded edition, News of the World: Selected and New Poems, appearing in 1998. His most recent publication is the widely-praised translation, The Georgics of Virgil, from 2004. Peter Fallon has received numerous awards and distinctions for his writing, including the 1993 O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. He is a member of Aosdana.

"...bountiful, faithful and frolicsome, a big achievement, in fact, a new poem living its own vivid life in English" - Seamus Heaney on The Georgics of Virgil

Conor O'Callaghan
Conor O'Callaghan's The History of Rain, published in 1993, was shortlisted for the Forward 'Best First Collection' Prize and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Seatown followed in 1999 and his third collection Fiction, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, appeared in April 2005. He has held various writer-in-residence positions, and has been co-holder of the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies, Villanova University, Pennsylvania. As well as poetry, he has written widely on sport, most notably his book Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War (2004).

"O’Callaghan’s poetry is marvellously his own" - Stephen Knight, TLS