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John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. Before his novel writing days, he worked a number of different jobs including that of a journalist, barman, local government official, waiter and gofer at Harrods department store in London. He spent time at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a BA in English, and at Dublin City University, where he did an MA in journalism. The latter of these led to him working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times, a newspaper which he still writes for.

Born in Limerick and currently living in Sligo, Kevin Barry started his writing career as a journalist with his local paper. Having moved onto freelance work, writing columns in The Irish Examiner, The Irish Times and Glasgow’s Sunday Herald, he decided to focus more earnestly on his fiction.

Sarah Pinborough was born in the market town of Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire on the 28th of March 1972. Her father was a career diplomat, so they soon found themselves living in the Middle East, amongst other places, where the lack of television meant that the young Sarah spent most of her spare time reading. From the age of eight, she spent ten years in boarding schools in Britain, before training as a secondary school teacher and teaching at schools in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Juliet E McKenna was born in Lincolnshire in July 1965, but now lives in West Oxfordshire with her husband Steve and their two sons, Keith and Ian. Even from an early age her interest in folk tales and mythology was evident. Her favourite subjects at school were History, English, and Latin. This led fairly naturally to a classics degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford (also attended by P-CON III’s Guest of Honour, Susanna Clarke) where she studied Greek and Roman history and literature.

Although CE Murphy is universally known as Catie, her name is actually Catherine Eileen Murphy. so it will surprise no-one to learn that, although she was born in Alaska, she has strong Irish roots, and on both sides. Her maternal grandfather, in fact, moved over there in the 1920s, and all of her family moved back to Ireland in 2005, and have all lived here since. And Alaska's loss is definitely Ireland's gain.

Ian McDonald was born in Manchester, England in 1960. When he was five his family moved to Belfast, where he has lived ever since.

At the age of nine, Ian began to write; when he was 22 he had sold his first story to a local magazine in Belfast; and by 1987 he had become a full-time writer. It was through television that he developed a love for science fiction.

Doctor Kathryn ‘arpo Laity was born in Lansing, Michigan, of Finnish stock, something which has informed her life and work since. She holds a doctorate from the University of Connecticut, and is a full-time professor of English literature, creative writing and film at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2006.

Conor Horgan's bio will appear here soon.

George Green was born in Dublin in 1956 and raised in Tipperary, in a house built on top of an ancient burial mound. After a brief decade in the Sport and Leisure trade, George took an MA in Creative Writing and became a lecturer at Lancaster University.