Alexandra Murphy was born in Canada but has been travelling between Ireland and home for the last eight years. She has a B.A. in Honours English Literature and a Masters diploma in Journalism. She writes and speaks French fluently and also speaks Italian and Spanish. Her articles have been published in small publications in Montreal. She enjoys writing arts and culture news features, short stories and children's fiction.

Andrew McEneff is a graduate of the American College Dublin, University College Dublin and most recently has completed the M.Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College. He is working on his first collection of short stories and is a short-film screenwriter and director.

David Murphy recently completed an honours degree in Audio Visual Communications at Institute of Technology, Tallaght.  During his time studying he worked on several amateur film productions, presented and produced locally broadcast radio shows and produced a portfolio of photography.  He has also written articles for the newspaper Metro Eireann.

Donna Sørensen is originally from England, but has spent most of the last nine years living around Europe and North America. She speaks French and fluent Danish. She has worked in schools in England and Copenhagen, and with special-needs children in Peru, collecting inspiration for her stories for young children. She is currently working on her fifth picture book for children and her first collection of poetry.

Sara O’Loughlin graduated this year from University College Dublin with a BA in English and Drama. She has published a story in The Sunday Tribune New Irish Writing section, has been accepted to the Masters in Writing programme at Sarah Lawrence College, New York for 2010 and is currently working on a collection of short stories as well as occasionally veering into poetry and the idea of a novel. Sara works at the Centre on a part-time basis.