Patrick Deeley is a poet, memoirist and children’s writer who grew up on a small Callows or wetland meadow farm outside Loughrea. County Galway.   His poems have been translated to French, Spanish, Italian and Ukrainian, and his tenth collection, Keepsake, appeared from Dedalus Press in 2024.  His literary awards include The Eilis Dillon Award, The Dermot Healy International Poetry Prize, and The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award.  His bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir, The Hurley Maker’s Son, was shortlisted for the Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2016.   He is currently working on a new memoir, titled Seeing Through Trees.

Kim McCall along with his wife Mireille McCall manage a mixed livestock farm together in Calverstown, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare. Their farm is a 214-acre property with a herd of 75 pedigree suckler cows, a flock of 80 sheep, and some pigs in the summer. Kim is a Farming for Nature Ambassador.