Editors

EDITOR-IN CHIEF

Máire Holmes is a former member of the Board of the Society of Irish Playwrights and shareholder of the Abbey, Ireland’s National Theatre. She was also on the Board of Galway Art Centre in the early 1990’s. Hennessy Award Winner for Literary Fiction (1988) and a recipient of The County Council, Bank of Ireland award, for her contribution to the Arts. She holds MA in Writing from National University of Ireland. See here: Galway2016 Maire Holmes Plaque Unveiled More…

GENERAL ADMINISTRATOR

Uinseann Mac Thómais
(aka Vincent Holmes) likes lots of pastimes. He starts his day at 6.30am with a sea swim in Blackrock, normally a very mirthful experience. Its exhilaration fires him up for the rest of the day to dabble in computing, innovation and the occasional written piece for the Galway Review. He has a keen interest in an Ghaeilge and its perpetuation and holds a Master’s Degree in Language Planning, the science of passing language on to the next generation. A retired civil servant, formerly of Roinn na Gaeltachta, he works part-time as a court interpreter. More….

SENIOR DIGITAL EDITOR

Tom Canaday has a background in digital media, film production, and creative writing. He was recipient of the 2014 Paul W. Ward Prize for his short story ALIVE and has seen both his poems and short stories published. Tom’s studies and creative work have hinged on his long-held interest in magical realism and children’s fantasy. Recently, his focus has shifted to digital remix videos and screenwriting, but he still can’t escape those genres (or the way in which they make the imagination tangible) in any of his work.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Laney Lenox is Ph.D Researcher – Ulster University. She earned an MA in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice from Queen’s University Belfast. She received her undergraduate degree in Peace Studies with a minor and honors in Creative Writing. Originally from the United States, she moved to Galway to work as an intern for The Galway Review. While in college, she worked as a writing tutor at Millsaps College…More…

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Adrian Frazier is a graduate of Pomona College (BA 1971), Trinity College Dublin (Diploma in Anglo Irish Literature, 1973), and Washington University in St. Louis (MA 1976; Ph.D 1979). He has been on the faculty at Nanjing Teachers University (1979-81), UnionCollege in New York (1981-2000), and the National University of Ireland at Galway (2000-), where he teaches at the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and the MA in Writing. More…

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

tonyyyy Tony Hall is a lecturer in NUI Galway. He is a graduate of the University of Limerick (BA Physical Education and English, and PhD Computer Science) and NUI Galway (Master of Information Technology). He recently completed the Postgraduate Award in Teaching Shakespeare with the Royal Shakespeare Company/University of Warwick. He is a former post-primary school teacher of Physical Education, English and ICT. Tony writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction.More…

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Gerard Hanberry is an award winning poet and writer who lives in Galway. His fourth collection of poetry is to be published by Salmon in 2013. This follows At Grattan Road (2009) also from Salmon. In 2011 The Collins Press published Hanberry’s biography of Oscar Wilde and the Wilde family, More Lives Than One-The Remarkable Wilde Family Through the Generations. More…

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Luke Morgan is an Irish poet. He was the winner in his category for the inaugural Poetry Ireland / Trócaire competition for his poem Atlas. In 2012, Windows Publications featured a small collection of his poetry as part of their tenth anniversary edition. He lives in Galway. More….

DEPUTY EDITOR-IN CHIEF

Jack McCann is a plastic surgeon and a writer. He has been writing seriously for the past 10 years. He has published two collections of poetry, Turning on a Sixpence in 2011 and Escaped Thoughts in 2012. He is included in two anthologies, Off the Cuff (KARA) in 2012 and Oughterard Voices in 2013. More….

MANAGING EDITOR

Ndrek Gjini is a graduate of the National University of Ireland (M A in Writing 2011), GMIT, (BA in Heritage Studies 2010) and University of Shkodra,(BA in Language and Literature 1988). He is is originally from Albania but has lived in Ireland since 2002. He is author of books published in Albanian and English. His research and teaching interests are in digital humanities, book history, textual studies, editing, and 20th-century literature.More…

DEPUTY EDITOR &

COPY EDITOR

Matt Mooney. Born, a farmer’s son, in Kilchreest, Co. Galway in 1943. A graduate of UCG and UCC he has worked as a Vocational Teacher in Listowel. His previous collections of poems were: Droving (2003), Falling Apples (2010), Earth to Earth (2015) and The Singing Woods (2017). Winner of The Pádraig Liath Ó Conchubhair Award 2019. (Filíocht/Poetry). He is a reviewer, copy editor and proof reader with The Galway Review Literary Magazine. His poems and writings have been published in: The Blue Nib; The Amaravati International Poetic Prism Anthology; The Galway Review (online), The Galway Review Anthology; Feasta; West 47; The Applicant; Poetry Breakfast; Poems on the Edge; The Connaught Tribune,The Kerryman and Kerrys Eye; The Galway Advertiser (Peann agus Pár); Pendemic and Live Encounters. He has been a feature reader in The White House, Ó Bhéal, On the Nail, West Cork Literary Festival, Baffle, Féile Raifteirí, Éigse Dara Beag , The Forge in Gort and has featured online in Cultivating Voices (USA) and Not the time to be Silent. One of his poems appears on the syllabus of a number of UK Primary Schools. His poems have been read on: RTE Radio, Wired FM, Radio Kerry.

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Eva Bourke is originally from Germany but has lived in Ireland most of her life. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently piano (May 2011, Dedalus Press, Dublin), two comprehensive anthologies of contemporary Irish poets in German translation, as well as a collection by the German poet Elisabeth Borchers (Poetry Europe Series, Dedalus Press). More…

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

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John Kenny is a graduate of the National University of Ireland (BA 1992, Ph.D. 2002). His Doctoral thesis was titled ’Connoisseur of Silences: John Banville and the Belief in Autonomy’ (National University of Ireland, Galway, Thesis 4746), and he is currently completing two books on Banville for Irish Academic Press. He was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006). More..

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Bernard Kirk is the Director of Galway Education Centre. He is co Founder of Robotics Ireland, The All Ireland Primary Schools Debating Competition and Space Camps Ireland. In 2010 he was nominated to the Trinity Science Gallery Leonardo group. He is Committee member of National Education Committee, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Chairperson The Galway Music Residency and a Committee Member NUIG Research Ethics Committee.More…

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Trevor Conway, a Sligoman living in Galway since 2005, writes mainly poetry, fiction and songs. He has recorded an album of his songs, released in 2013. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies across Ireland, Austria, India, the UK, the US and Mexico, where his poems have been translated into Spanish. These publications include ROPES, Decanto, Read This, Fusion, The Literary Yard, Cuadrivio, Periodico de Poesia, Poetic Expressions and Poetry Salzburg Review.More…