Damien B Donnelly
Podcast host & producer / The Storms Editor-in-chief
Damien B. Donnelly is the award-winning author of the poetry pamphlet Eat the Storms, a Stickleback micro-collection & the conversational pamphlet In the Jitterfritz of Neon, co-written by Eilín de Paor, all published by Hedgehog Poetry Press who also published his first full collection Enough! in August 2022. He’s the host & producer of Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and EIC of The Storms, a printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art. His work appears in various journals, online & in print. His second collection, Back from Away, was published by Turas Press, May 2024.
Rhona Greene
Subeditor The Storms Issue 5
Rhona Greene, a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer from Dublin, is published in several Black Bough Poetry editions and was shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award. She was featured prose writer in
The Storms 2 and appears in the Shine anthology 1. Online publications include: iambapoet/wave nineteen, A Thousand Shades of Green, The Wombwell Rainbow, and Sarah Connors Advent Poems. Rhona is ecstatic to be on board The Storms 5 as sub-editor!
Eilín de Paor
Former sub-editor Issue 2
Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin. She works in services for people with disabilities and is studying towards a PhD in that field. Her poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, The Waxed Lemon, Abridged, 14, Raleigh Review, Belfield Literary Review and Dedalus Local Wonders Anthology. Her pamphlet, ‘In the Jitterfritz of Neon’, a collaboration with Damien B. Donnelly, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
Fiona O’Rourke
Subeditor The Storms Issue 4
Fiona O’Rourke is a Pushcart Prize nominated author. Since 2012 her short stories, autofiction, and essays have been published in journals and anthologies, broadcast for RTE Radio, and translated. Her debut novel was a joint winner at the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2016. Since earning an MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin, she has facilitated writers in libraries, festivals, and at the Irish Writers Centre. She was the curator and facilitator for Northern Soul Roadshow 2022-24, and is the organiser and MC for Open Mic for Gaza. Read more about Fiona at FionaO.substack.com
Gaynor Kane
Former sub-editor Issue 1
Gaynor Kane, inaugural issue subeditor, is the author of Circling the Sun, Memory Forest, Venus in Pink Marble and her new pamphlet, Eight Types of Love, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press on 30th July. She loves lots of different things including smashing down literal & metaphorical walls and often uses her writing to give others a voice.
Nithy Kasa
Subeditor The Storms Issue 3
Nithy Kasa is a Congolese-Irish poet whose work is featured on the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation website, the University of Galway’s archive, the Special Collections of University College Dublin, Poetry Ireand Review and others. She is among the ten poets selected for Poetry as Commemoration for the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 programme by UCD supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. She’s the recipient of I bhFad i gCéin international residencies for Cave Canem by Poetry Ireland, The Arts Council and the Department of Foreign Affairs. She received the Poetry Ireland Commission 2020 and was shortlisted for The Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award 2021. Her debut collection of poetry, Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho, Doire Press 2022, was selected by the Art Council of Ireland for the ‘read mór’ for Culture Night Ireland 2022, was listed among the top poetry books of 2022 by the Irish Times, and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023. Nithy is also a facilitator registered with the Irish Writers Centre.
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