DECEMBER 2024 ISSUE 3 THE ORPHIC REVIEW

Jennifer McMahon

Jennifer McMahon is represented by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. She was the overall winner of the 2024 All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public category), a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year (2023), the Bridport Short Story Prize and many other notable awards, and was nominated for Best Of The Net 2024. She was also a second-place winner of the Oxford Prize (winter 2023), and has been longlisted in the Bath Short Story Award. Jennifer's work appears in Crannog, HOWL, Irish Independent (New Irish Writing), The Galway Review, Oxford Prize Anthology (2022 and 2023), Fractured Lit, Heimat Review (issues 2 and 6), Empyrean, Books Ireland Magazine, Loft Books (issues IV and V), the Retreat West 'Swan Song' Anthology, the Cowboy Jamboree 'Motel' anthology, and in many other places. Jennifer is the joint Editor-In-Chief of Frazzled Lit (frazzledlit.com), a new and exciting literary journal, the first issue of which will land at end of September 2024.

Geraldine Fleming

After retirement Geraldine Fleming reconnected with creative writing. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many anthologies and journals. In 2022, two poems were published in Community Arts Partnership Anthology, Threshold, and cartographer was long listed for the Seamus Heaney Award. The following year a poem was published in the annual CAP anthology, Compass. She has published a short story collection, Curiosity, January 2023 and a poetry collection, Fractured Echoes, June 2023, both by Impspired Press.

Tom Snarsky

Tom Snarsky wrote the chapbooks Threshold (Another New Calligraphy) & Complete Sentences (Broken Sleep Books), and the full-length collections Light-Up Swan & Reclaimed Water (both from Ornithopter Press). A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is forthcoming from Animal Heart Press in 2025. MOUNTEBANK is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2026.

Mara Adamitz Scrupe

Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a poet and essayist, visual artist, and documentary filmmaker. She has authored seven award-winning poetry collections, her work has been published in international literary journals, and she has won or been shortlisted for many visual art and literary prizes, fellowships, and awards. A native of Minnesota, she lives with her husband on their farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Lucy Heuschen

Lucy Heuschen is a Pushcart-nominated poet based in Germany. Her poems have appeared in The High Window, The Storms, Skylight 47, Ink Sweat And Tears, New Contexts, Obsessed By Pipework, Lighthouse and Green Ink. Lucy has published two chapbooks and her debut collection is coming soon from Yaffle Press. Website: www.lucyheuschen.co.uk.

Robin Steve

Robin Steve is a trans poet. They are based in Dublin, where they are pursuing a PhD at University College Dublin. Their research, funded by the Irish Research Council, focuses on the intersections between trans poetics, trans ecologies, and trans temporalities. Their poetry has been published on Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, Impossible Archetype, and ANMLY.