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D.W.W.
Members' Biographical Details
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Jack Butler lives in San Diego, California. He was born in El Centro
California, a small farming town near the Mexican border, raised in San
Diego, educated in Berkeley and spent most of his professional life in
Massachusetts.
John Daly was born 1954 in Dublin and lived most of his life in Wicklow. Deirdre Grimes is 22, a mother, a graduate of Limerick school of art and a member of Killaloe writers group. Padraig Hanratty is 25. He lives in Dublin where he works as an editor for a computer company. He did an MA in UCD on Brendan Behan. He had a short story published in Asylum magazine and had one broadcast on Dundrum local radio. Colette is from Galway city and is presently studying a B.A. in English and Economics. She would welcome any and all feedback on the work in this issue and in issue number 2. You can send feedmail to: cbegbe@yahoo.com. Belgian born, lives in London. 48 years old. one daughter. Happy. Michael Koch was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and has been living and studying in London for the past three years. He is a short story writer and poet, and will have a piece on Moroccan travel published in the Journal Of African Travel Writing in the coming year. Geoff Leone is an American currently living in Scandinavia Conor Lynch lives and works in Dublin. This is his first published work. Pat Mullan, a native of Derry, Ireland, has lived in England, Canada
and the USA. He spent two years with the US Army in Japan and Korea. Formerly
a banker, he is a graduate of Northwestern University and the State University
of New York where he studied creative writing. He lives in Connemara, in
the west of Ireland, with his Scottish wife Jean and his two young daughters.
He is currently at work on a new novel.
Fearghal O'Connor is 24 and lives in Skerries, Co. Dublin. He has not been published before but has written up to 300 poems over the last 8 years. He is interested in getting some feed back about his poetry. Michael O'Connor is a writer living in the UK. One of his received an Honourable Mention in the tenth annual edition of the international publication Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and others have been successful in the 1998 Department for Education Cancer Research Campaign competition (First Prize)and the Camberley Writers' Circle 1998 Competition (Highly Commended), as well as in the 1997 Lewis Wright Competition and the 1996 Redcar Writers' Competition. Among the magazines in which his work has appeared are Xenos, Kimota, Lateral Moves, Zest, Omega, The Magpie's Nest, Dementia 13, Nasty Piece of Work, Footsteps, Sierra Heaven, Threads, Roadworks, The Heliograph and the Mensa Magazine Short Story Supplement. Brendan O'Neill is of Irish parentage although brought up in the UK. He is now living in Ireland and is very involved in web design, hosting a website for virtual writers [see links page]. His poetry has been published in a number of journals. Tricia Rainsford was born in the US but grew up in Ireland. She has lived in Limerick for most of her life. She is nearly 40, married with 3 children. She has a degree in Arts from St Patrick's College, Maynooth and teaches part-time - Assertiveness/Personal Development to adults and Classical Studies to Leaving Cert. students. She writes quite a bit but has only really begun to submit her work in the past few months. At present she is both working on a novel and trying to steel herself to keep sending her finished novel to publishers Susan Schreibman was born in the US but has worked as an academic in Ireland for the past number of years. Her poetry has been published in a wide variety of periodicals and journals in the US, the UK and Ireland. She teaches creative writing, both online and offline. Sean Sheahan is an Irish-born poet, currently living in France. Marcus Slease is an Irishman (Portadown) in temporary self-exile studying in America. Charles Travis is an academic living in the US. His Master's Thesis process is under way at the University of Toledo. Generally the thesis subject concerns itself with the perception of the morphology of the northern Irish landscape from both Irish language constructs and Anglo language constructs Holly Sierra lives in Stormville, N.Y., USA. She was born in New York in 1958, of an Irish father and an English mother. She is related to Margaret Anderson, who besides writing books, began a periodical called The Little Review, publishing for the first time, Joyce's Ulysses in the USA. She studied at SUNY, the School of Fine Arts, located in Purchase, N.Y. Her art career began by exhibiting paintings locally. From 1984~1989, she lived and worked abroad in Asia, where she discovered wonderful Oriental secrets and subtleties.....which she incorporated into her work. Back home again, she works as an illustrator for children's literature and educational materials. Grace Wilson is an avid Shakespeare fan and especially delight in his
Sonnets. She has always been fascinated with Renaissance Art both in artistic
masterpieces and historical ruins. She considers herself to be a Renaissance
Woman and is a descendent of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Noel Conneely has had poems published in the Irish Press, Acorn
V,
Christopher Daybell Christopher Daybell was born in Oxford, England, and educated at
His work has appeared in the Irish Times, the Irish Press,
the Sunday Independent, Acorn
5,the Dublin Magazine and a collection, Requiem For
a
Patricia Anne Moore Patricia Anne Moore is originally from Ulster but now lives in County
Clare. She is a member of the Killaloe Writers Group and her work has been
publishedly widely in journals and magazines.
Nessa O'Mahony was born in Dublin, where she now lives and
Maeve O'Sullivan was born in Dublin, and now works there as arts
Pauline Plummer lives in Middlesbrough, but was born in Liverpool. She
teaches creative writing to university students. Her poetry has been published
in a wide number of journals and periodicals in the UK, Ireland and the
US. In 1991 her first collection of poems, Romeo's Cafe, was published.
She recently travelled to Sierra Leone with an artist and worked on an
exhibition of paintings and poems which was exhibited in various galleries
in the UK.
Anthony Ryan is an Irish poet currently living in France. His work also
featured in the first issue of Electric Acorn.
Seamus Ua Trodd has travelled extensively and his poetry has beeen published widely. He lives in Dublin and is a member of the Dublin Writers Workshop. Jennifer Donegan was born in Dublin and lived there for most of her
life. She works part-time as an actress with a children's theatre company.
She studied Arts in UCD and graduated this year. She has always loved watching
people, but it is only last year that she has started to write about them.
J.X Martin lives in Buffalo,N.Y. His antecedents are predominantly Irish. He is 49, married and has been writing poetry and short stories all his life. He has worked for most of his career in local government. Joe McHale is a poet who lives in Dublin. He is a member of the Dublin
Writers Workshop has his work has appeared in previous issues of Electric
Acorn.
Nick Watson is a writer living in Buenos Aires. He writes short stories and novels and his work has previously appeared in Electric Acorn II. W.L.M. is a prose writer and poet who lives in Maylasia.
Linda Brown is originally from Ohio in the states and is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine presently in the United States Air Force stationed in England. LOVE is her second poem and she has never been published. She loves to write- she has two daughters who are her inspiration. She is presently working on writing techniques but never wants to lose her personal "write from the heart" style.
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