HLF Speakers

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

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

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

Winner of multiple international awards — including the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and the Lannan Literary Award Fellowship —

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