Annie Deppe is the author of Sitting in the Sky (2003) and Wren Cantata (2009), both published in Ireland by Summer Palace Press and her third collection, Night Collage (2021) also published in Ireland with Arlen House. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Sojourners, and The Forward Book of Poetry 2004. Born in New England, she is a dual Irish-US citizen and makes her home on the coast of Connemara.

 Ted Deppe was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He worked as a registered nurse for many years before becoming a full-time writer and teacher. His poetry collections include the chapbook Necessary Journeys (1988) and the full-length collections Children of the Air (1990) The Wanderer King (1996), Cape Clear: New & Selected Poems (2002), Orpheus on the Red Line (2009,) Beautiful Wheel (2014), Liminal Blue (2017, and Riverlight (2019). Deppe has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. A past writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut, and at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Deppe taught in the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program from 2003 to 2021. He and his wife, the poet Annie Deppe, have lived in Ireland since 2000.

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