Author of about thirty works (poetry, essay, prose), Chantal Danjou lives and works in Val de Chalvagne of Provence after a long Parisian sojourn. She gained her doctorate in 1985 from La Sorbonne on the lonely woman in Colette and Katherine Mansfield. She taught in that field for many years, nowadays supervising at University projects specifically focused on the experience of creative reading and writing. She was, too, director of the editorial board of the journal Decision (2020-2022). Since 1989 until 2022, she contributed to the field of contemporary poetry and poetics through the organisation La Roue Traversière [The Transverse Wheel] which she co-founded. 

Amongst her more recent publications in poetry are, L’ancêtre sans visage, pictorial facing with Ena Lindenbaur, Ed, Collodion, 2016 for the artist’s book / 2017, for the current edition, La concomitante,Ed. Encres Vives, Colomiers, 2017, L’ombre et l’invisible, with Ena Lindenbaur, Les Cahiers du Museur, coll. A côté, Nice, 2017, Les neuf lumières, Les Phyllades, with Henri Yéru, Les Cahiers du Museur, coll. À côté, Nice, 2023 and the novels Les Jardins d’Essais, Ed. Orizons, 2017, Journal de la main, Ed. Orizons, 2017, Le souffle du noir, essay about Henri Yéru, Ed. Orizons, 2019, L’Ombre et le ciel  Le Ciel et l’ombre, Ed. Orizons, 2021, Chienne de plainte, short stories, Ed. The Menthol House, 2021.  

Her website is : http://www.sgdl-auteurs.org/chantal-danjou/index.php/pages/Biographie

Madeleine D’Arcy is a fiction writer based in Cork City, Ireland.

Her début short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK). Her second collection of linked short fiction, LIBERTY TERRACE (Doire Press, 2021) was awarded a FAPA Bronze Medal 2022 (US) and was Cork’s One City One Book 2023. Madeleine co-edited CORK STORIES (Doire Press, 2024) with fellow Irish writer Laura McKenna. She has completed her first novel. She is currently working on a second novel and on a third short story collection. Madeleine is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and the UK. She is represented by Brian Langan of Storyline Agency.