Born 1938, Finger-lakes Area of New York State, USA. Festival director, teacher, journalist, poet, broadcaster, fiction writer. Educated at Hamilton College, Bread Loaf School of English and Washington U, all in America, Kruger worked for 26 years as a teacher, counsellor, administrator and lecturer in places as disparate as Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Switzerland. In 1986, he moved part-time to Clear Island, Co. Cork, and set up official residence in 1992. In 1994 he founded what would become an annual international storytelling festival.  A member of the organization âartists without frontiersâ and âThe Irish Writers' Union & Poetry Society of America,â Kruger currently contributes to such publications as The Irish Examiner, The Marine Times and The Southern Star in Ireland, as well as many American, UK and Swedish magazines. He has broadcast his poetry over the radio, and is involved in countless festivals and judging panels both domestically and internationally. He also edits collections of poetry. He currently resides on his farm on Clear Island, Co Cork.

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Catherine Ann Cullenâs first collection of poetry, A Bone in My Throat, was published by Doghouse in July 2007. Catherine Ann was born in Drogheda, Co Louth. She is a graduate of the M.Phil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Her work has been published in The Doghouse Book of Irish Ballads, two Sunday Miscellany collections, The Stinging Fly, College Green and The Sunday Tribune, and her poetry was used in the play, The Pandora Effect, by Gary Carter (London, 2003).She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio 1âs Sunday Miscellany and A Living Word, and has presented work at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Brendan Kennelly Festival, the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, the Between the Lines Festival, and Belfast Young at Arts. Her two childrenâs books, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat (2001) and Thirsty Baby (2003) have been published by Little, Brown in the US. The first won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parents Association. She has also written two stories for the RTE series Fiction 15, and one for the collection Stories for Jamie (Blackwater Press, 2002). Her animation work includes a bawdy verse-script for Rowlandson Rides Again (Moving Still, 2006), an adult short on the 18^th C artist Thomas Rowlandson. She has made documentaries and a series about food for RTE Radio 1 as well as producing current affairs, arts and features. She lives with her partner Harry and daughter Stella Nora in Kimmage, Dublin 12.