Galway Review 8 - April 2020

Bio Notes
i
Anne Marie Kennedy is an award winning writer,
performance poet, playwright, freelance journalist,
motivational speaker and creative writing teacher. She lives
on a small farm in rural Galway with her husband and a
menagerie of four legged people. Her blog-from-the-bog is
at annemariekennedy.ie
ii
N.K. Woods worked in financial services for years but left
the world of business behind to study Creative Writing in the
University of Edinburgh. She received her MSc in 2018 and
has since had stories published by Tales From the Forest, The
Galway Review and Queen Mob’s Teahouse. Raised in
Wexford, she now lives in Kildare but loves to travel,
especially to Oxford, home of her all-time favourite
bookshop.
iii
Arber Ahmetaj has published several novels and short
stories. He lives in Sion, Switzerland. His books have been
published in French, Romanian, Hungarian, etc. He also
writes poetry. Some prestigious European literary magazines
have evaluated his books as important contributions to
contemporary literature.
iv
Anna Allen, born in County Wicklow, has lived in
Connemara for over thirty years. Though the idea of writing
nagged and haunted her, having married and started a family
that grew and grew, there were too many other calls on her
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