HLF Speakers

Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television

TINA CHANG is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Hybrida (2019) and the forthcoming collection, LION (W.W. Norton,

Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times, where he has worked since 2007. He is a former Editor

Tony Barnstone, a poet, literary critic, and translator, has authored twenty-four books, including poetry collections, anthologies, textbooks, and multimedia work,

PETER SALISBURY is a screenwriter and filmmaker with a lifelong passion for cinematic storytelling. Originally from England, he discovered an

Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Griffith University, Australia Sally Breen is the author of the iconic grunge memoir The