Silver Streams Issue 1 | Page 38

Nalini Priyadarshni is the author of Doppelganger in My House and co author of Lines Across Oceans. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, podcasts and international anthologies including In-flight Magazine, Poetry Breakfast, Yellow Chair Review. Her poems and views on poetry and life have been featured on AIR (All India Radio) and FM radio. She lives in India.

Conor D. Ryan: BA English and Sociology; MA Engish. Currently in pursuit of an MA Digital Humanities. [email protected]. http://w1ld3rcard.wordpress.com/

John Saunders is a founder member of the Hibernian Writers’ Group. His collections are After the Accident (Lapwing Press, 2010) and Chance (New Binary Press, 2013). One of three featured poets in Measuring, Dedalus New Writers,2012, he was shortlisted in the 2012 inaugural Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition and is a 2014 Pushcart Nominee. John’s poems have appeared in journals in Ireland, the UK and America, on many online sites, and been included in The New Binary Press Anthology of Poetry, The Stony Thursday Book, The Scaldy Detail 2013, Conversations with a Christmas Bulb (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2013)

Brian Sheehan writes stories and poems. His work has appeared in The Incubator, Ibis Head Review and Brilliant Flash Fiction. He lives in Dublin.

Neil Slevin MA, BSc is a writer from Co. Leitrim, Ireland, whose poetry has been published by various Irish publications, including The Galway Review, A New Ulster, Skylight 47, Boyne Berries, and Into The Void, and numerous international journals, such as Scarlet Leaf Review and Artificium: The Journal. His flash fiction appeared in The Incubator. He is a founder and editor of Dodging The Rain.

Sarah Strong was born in Dublin in 1949 and has lived in London since 1967. Her poems appear in Arlen House Anthology Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry (2017); Cold Weather Shelter Anthology (2017); Southword Issue 31 (2017); The Cannon’s Mouth (2016). She was short-listed for Fire River Poetry Competition (2016). Her poetic film I Hear Fish Drowningpremiered at Merriman Summer school (2014) http://www.palowniapictures.com/ Her working background has been in the Arts, Health and Housing. Email: [email protected] <http://[email protected]

Deirdre Sullivan is a writer and teacher from Galway. She writes young Adult novels, most recently Needlework. Her next book, Tangleweed and Brine will be a fairy-tale collection. Contact: @propermiss on twitter. Deirdre Sullivan (Writer) on Facebook.

Shane Vaughan is a writer, photographer, and media maker. His writing can be found in numerous journals and magazines, such as The Pickled Body, The Honest Ulsterman, and Poetry NI, and his photography has been featured in Idler, The Bohemyth, and Stanzas, which he co-runs in Limerick City. His poetry-films have shortlisted for various competitions, he is on the board of the Limerick Fringe, and his latest play Puck & The Lovers performed in the Cork School of Music to wide acclaim. [email protected]

Jack White is from Cork and is 22 years of age. He is currently studying English literature and French at UCC and hopes to pursue a career in creative writing and journalism. [email protected]

Sharon Zelnick holds a BA in Liberal Arts (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University and is now pursuing her MA in Comparative Literature and Media at Leiden University. Sharon’s main fields of interest are intermediality, migratory aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism. [email protected]