Alice Bennett is an artist, writer, teacher/researcher. She was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Kilkenny in 2000. She teaches creative writing and literature in Maynooth University and facilitates workshops with community groups. Alice’s poems are about intense personal experiences and relationships. They record, reflect and challenge the everyday moments which make up our lives. Her work has been published in the Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet, various anthologies and broadcast on Poetry Phone, a Kilkenny Arts Office programme. Alice was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh first collection award 2023. She has just completed her first collection of poetry which she has sent out to publishers.
Enda Coyle-Greene was born in Dublin and now lives in Skerries, Co. Dublin.Widely published, broadcast and anthologised in Ireland and elsewhere, her debut collection, Snow Negatives (2007) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2006 and was followed in 2013 by Map of the Last, and by Indigo, Electric, Baby in 2020, all from the Dedalus Press.She holds an M.A. (Dist.) in English, Creative Writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast. The recipient of a Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2020, she is co-founder and Artistic Director of Fingal Poetry Festival.