Splonk Issue 4 Biographies
Anna-Clare Nic Gairbheith is a postgraduate student at University College Dublin studying the MA CumarsĂĄid agus ScrĂobh na Gaeilge. She has written for NĂłs magazine and UCD College Tribune, and is the current EagarthĂłir Gaeilge for the latter.
Anna-Clare is passionate about an Ghaeilge and Irish literature.
Nepal-born Anuja Ghimire (Twitter @GhimireAnuja) lives near Dallas with her husband and two daughters. She’s the author of chapbook Kathmandu (Unsolicited Press), a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, a senior publisher in an online learning company, and a poetry reader for Up the Staircase Quarterly.
Bayveen O’Connell is an Irish writer whose words have appeared in Ekphrastic Review, Fractured Lit, Janus Lit, The Forge, Maryland Literary Review, Scrawl Place, Lumiere Review, National Flash Fiction Day Floods, and others. She draws inspiration from history, art, travel, and folklore.
Twitter: @bayveenwriter
Damyanti Biswas‘s short fiction has been published, or is forthcoming, at Ambit, Litro, Puerto Del Sol, Griffith Review, Pembroke, among others. Her debut literary crime novel You Beneath Your Skin was published by Simon & Schuster India, and optioned for TV adaptation by Endemol Shine. Tweets at @damyantig.
Frances Gapperâs stories have been published in three Best Microfiction anthologies and online in places including Splonk, Forge, Gooseberry Pie, Wigleaf, trampset, 100 Word Story, Switch, the Dribble Drabble Review, Twin Pies, Janus, Fictive Dream and New Flash Fiction Review. She lives in the UKâs Black Country. @biddablesheep
GrĂĄinne Daly scribbles poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Winner of the UCD Maeve Binchy Award 2019 and runner up in the Limnisa Short Story Competition 2019. Highly commended in the Blue Nib Chapbook Competition 2018, shortlisted for the Gregory O’Donoghue and Anthony Cronin Poetry Prizes, she has been published in numerous publications.
Jim Ward writes and is published in English and Irish. His award-winning play Just Guff has toured locally including Town Hall Studio, Galway, Kilkee Playwright Festival and Liberty Hall, Dublin as part of MayFest 2019. His poem 2016 Proclamation was runner-up in the Galway Bay FM/Thoor Ballylee Poetry Challenge, 2017.
Joanne McCarthy : ScrĂobhann Joanne McCarthy i bPort LĂĄirge.TĂĄ dĂĄnta lĂ©i foilsithe i roinnt irisĂ agus duanairĂ. Ina measc The Stinging Fly, The Honest Ulsterman, Splonk, Ireland Chair of Poetry Anthology, Stony Thursday Book agus Bangor Literary Journal. TĂĄ dĂĄnta dĂĄ cuid le teacht in IrisComhar. Is comheagarthĂłir Ă ar The Waxed Lemon.@josieannarua
Katherine Duffy writes short fiction in both English and Irish. Her work in Irish has won Oireachtas awards and she won the Hennessy Award for a story in English. She has also published collections of poetry with the Dedalus Press and Templar Poetry. Website: http://www.kateduv.com Twitter: @kateduv1
Matt Neil Hill is from the UK, where he was a psych nurse for many years. What he is now is anybodyâs guess. Heâs married with cats and one miniature human. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Vastarien, Weirdbook, 3:AM and Shotgun Honey. Twitter ramblings @mattneilhill.
Sarah McPherson is a Sheffield-based writer of short fiction and poetry, with work published/forthcoming in Fudoki Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, The Cabinet of Heed, Riggwelter, and STORGY, among others. She has been long/short-listed in competitions including Writersâ HQ and Reflex Fiction. She tweets as @summer_moth and blogs at https://theleadedwindow.blogspot.com/.
Susanne Stich is originally from NĂŒrnberg and lives in the Northwest of Ireland. She was a finalist at the 2018 Irish Novel Fair and received a bursary from the Irish Arts Council. Her writing appeared in The Stinging Fly, Ambit, The Incubator, Boyne Berries and many other literary magazines. @lilysimage