Born in County Kerry, on the south-west coast of Ireland, Noel O’Regan is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Seán Dunne Young Writer Award and an Arts Council Next Generation Artist Award. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as The Stinging Fly, Granta, Ambit, Banshee, Southword and The London Magazine. His debut novel, Though the Bodies Fall, was published by Granta Books in August 2023, and was shortlisted for the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards and 2024 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.

Victoria Kennefick is a poet, writer and teacher from Shanagarry, Co. Cork, now based in Co. Kerry. Her first collection, Eat or We Both Starve, was published by Carcanet Press in March 2021. It won the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection 2022 and The Dalkey Literary Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award 2022. It was also  shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Costa Poetry Book Award, The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and The Butler Literary Prize. Egg/Shell her second collection of poetry was published earlier this year by Carcanet Press.

Noel & Victoria will be interviewed by screenwriter Edel Brosnan in Crosty’s Bar, The Mall Tavern, Tralee.