Dr Kerri Andrews
, director of Creative Writing at UCC, is a writer of non-fiction and editor. Her first book, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, was published in 2020 and has sold over 60,000 copies. Her second book, Pathfinding: On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom, was published in 2025 and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize in 2026. Waymakers, the first anthology of writing about walking by women, appeared in 2023. Her edition of Scottish nature writer Nan Shepherd鈥檚 letters, Nan Shepherd鈥檚 Correspondence, 1920-80, was longlisted for the Saltire Research Book of the Year Award in 2024. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 Woman鈥檚 Hour and Costing the Earth, and on radio in New Zealand.
kandrews@ucc.ie
Danny Denton
(he/him) is a writer from Cork, Ireland. His first novel,鈥�The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow鈥�(Granta Books, 2018) was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Collyer-Bristow Prize. All Along The Echo, his second novel, was published by Atlantic Books in 2022. Among other publications, his work has appeared in鈥�The Stinging Fly,鈥�Granta,鈥�Winter Papers,鈥�The Dublin Review,鈥�Tate Etc,鈥�The Guardian,鈥�The Irish Times,鈥�Architecture Ireland鈥痑苍诲鈥�The Big Issue, and has also been broadcast on BBC and RTE. He was the editor of鈥�The Stinging Fly鈥�magazine from 2018 to 2022.
danny.denton@ucc.ie
Dr Liz Quirke
is a poet and scholar from Kerry with two collections from Salmon Poetry (The Road, Slowly in 2018 and How We Arrive in Winter in 2021). Dr Quirke was an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar and a Galway Doctoral Fellow while pursuing a PhD through Creative Practice on Queer Kinship in Contemporary Poetry at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Galway. She is one of the founders of , a social history and literary project that has been archived by UCD and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Quirke鈥檚 poems have been described in The Irish Times as 'hard-won poems that rise out of a larger silence, re-doing the lyrics of M谩ire Mhac an tSaoi and Eavan Boland for 21st-century Ireland.' How We Arrive In Winter 鈥� a best poetry collection of 2021 choice by The Irish Times 鈥� has been described as 'brilliant and deeply moving' and an 'affecting and assured book, written from the frontlines of mourning, but attuned, too, to the possibility of a future as in The Promise of Sweetbread which ends with the epiphany that "there has never been/ such a call/ for light/ as this.鈥�'
lquirke@ucc.ie
Eimear Ryan
is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (Penguin Sandycove, 2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (Penguin Sandycove, 2023). Other writing has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and editor of Banshee literary journal and its publishing imprint, . From Co. Tipperary, she now lives in Cork city.
eimearryan@ucc.ie
John FitzGerald
John FitzGerald was born in Cork in 1962. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2015. A chapbook, First Cut, appeared in 2017, followed by Darklight, a limited edition, in 2019. A recipient of a Key West Literary Bursary, John has lived in Dublin, London and Florence, and for several years worked as 深夜亚洲福利久久 Librarian at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork. He lives with his family on their farm in Carrigdarrery, Co. Cork. His collections with The Gallery Press include (2021) and Long Distance (2024). A new translation of Caoineadh Airt U铆 Laoghaire by Eileen O鈥機onnell, was published in 2023 and includes Jack B. Yeats鈥檚 monochrome drawings.
J.Fitzgerald@ucc.ie
Dean Browne
Dean Browne is an award-winning poet from Co. Tipperary. His debut collection After Party (Picador, 2025) is a Poetry Society Recommendation. He received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021, and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night (Smith|Doorstop, 2022), won the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition. His poems are widely published internationally, in outlets such as New York Review of Books, Columbia Review, London Magazine, Poetry Review, The Irish Times, Stinging Fly, PN Review, and Poetry magazine. He lives in Cork.
Dean.Browne@ucc.ie
Cónal Creedon
C贸nal Creedon is an internationally renowned Cork novelist, short story writer, playwright and broadcaster. His novels include Pancho and Lefty Ride Out (1995), Passion Play (1999), Second City Trilogy (2007) and most recently, The Immortal Deed of Michael O鈥橪eary. His plays include The Trial Of Jesus (2000), Glory Be To The Father (2002), After Luke (2005) and When I Was God (2005); they have won two Irish National Business to Arts Awards and have been shortlisted for the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Productions of his plays have also won awards at the 2009 and 2013 Irish New York Theatre Awards. He has also written over 60 hours of radio drama 鈥� broadcast on RT脡, Lyric FM, BBC, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.
