As well as being the treasurer, Dr. John Kearns represents the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association on the board of the IWC. He edits the journal Translation Ireland, co-edits the IATIS Bulletin, and is reviews editor for The Interpreter and Translator Trainer. In 2007 Continuum published his collection Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods, Debates. He is associate professor in translation studies at the Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz.

Brendan Nolan is a member of the executive committee of the Irish Writers’ Union and serves as its Communications Officer. Brendan has had three books published, so far: Phoenix Park; a History and Guidebook; The Irish Companion; and Barking Mad, Tales of Liars, Lovers, Loonies and Layabouts. Brendan founded and edits the hugely-popular writer's resource site www.askaboutwriting.net and presents a weekly programme for writers and storytellers on radio: www.brendannolan.ie. He is course director of the Ask About Writing Academy of Writing. In an earlier career as an award-winning journalist Brendan wrote more than a million published words of paid-for reportage read by hundreds of thousands of people. He is currently writing a novel and ghostwriting a memoir.

Mícheál Ó Ruairc was born in Brandon, Co. Kerry in 1953 and has been living in Dublin since 1980. He retired from teaching in 2009 and is now a fulltime writer. He has published extensively and his works include poetry collections, novels, children’s fiction, short stories, reviews, articles, regular columns and extensive writing in the field of education. He has won numerous awards for his poetry and prose including first prize in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Competition (2007), first prize in the Oireachtas on three separate occasions for fiction for adults and young people and the main Oireachtas prize for a collection of short stories (2009). Amongst his publications are Fuil Samhraidh (1987); Humane Killing (1992); Dán is Céad ón Leitriúch (1998); Trasna na dTonnta (2001); An bhFaca Éinne Agaibh Roy Keane (2003); An Saol i Sladbhaile (2008) and his first collection of short stories, Daoine a Itheann Daoine, due to be published in 2010.

June Considine was born in Dublin and is the author of fifteen novels for adults and children. Her most recent novel The Prodigal Sister, published internationally by Avon/Harper Collins in June 2009, was written under her pen name Laura Elliot. She has also worked as a freelance journalist and magazine editor. Her novels include When The Bough Breaks and Deceptions (New Island). Her books for children include The Luvender Trilogy, View from a Blind Bridge, The Glass Triangle, and the Beachwood series for young adults (Poolbeg Press). She is currently working on her latest novel Stolen Child (Avon/ Harper Collins) due for publication in 2010. Her short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and featured on RTE’s Fiction 15 series.

Jack Gilligan has worked in arts administration for approximately twenty five years. He served as Dublin City Arts Officer for sixteen years up to his retirement in October 2009. He was responsible for the preparation, negotiation and management of the annual arts programming budget and the delivery of the city’s arts service. He initiated and managed an Artist in Residence programme involving writers, musicians, dancers, film-makers and visual artists. Jack played a key role in the establishment of The LAB arts centre which opened, under his management, in 2005. He established the highly successful Dublin Writers' Festival which celebrates the best of Irish and international writing and has become a major international literary event.