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ANDREW M. GREELEY is a Catholic priest who teaches at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona. He is on the staff of the National Opinion Research Center. Among his sociology books are The Catholic Imagination, The Catholic Revolution, and Priests: Sociology of a Calling Under Attack. His fiction includes the “Blackie Ryan” and “Nuala Anne” mystery series and the O’Malley family saga. He has an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland/Galway.

JANE LINDSKOLD has long been fascinated by the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats. Indeed, her second published academic paper was titled “The Autobiographical Occult in Yeats’ ‘Second Coming.’ ”When she started research for this story, she was resolved not to write about Yeats’s doomed romance with revolutionary Maud Gonne, but the story insisted. Lindskold is the author of fifty or so short stories and over a dozen novels. The most recent of them are Through Wolf ’s Eyes, Wolf ’s Head, Wolf ’s Heart, and Dragon of Despair. She is always writing something, and enjoys doing so very much. You can learn more about her work at janelindskold.com.

FRED SABERHAGEN has been writing and selling fantasy and science fiction for a bit more than forty years, and now lives in New Mexico with his wife, Joan Spicci. His mother’s maiden name was Monahan, but he has never been to Ireland.

PETER TREMAYNE is the fiction-writing pseudonym of Celtic scholar and writer Peter Berresford Ellis, whose work has been published in nearly twenty languages around the world. His work has received much critical acclaim and in 2002, being born of Irish parentage, he received the accolade of being only the second living writer to be bestowed as an Honorary Life Member of the Irish Literary Society at the hands of its current president, Nobel Literary Laureate Seamus Heaney.Nobel Laureate W. B.Yeats, Charles Gavan Duffy, and other Irish literary personalities formed the Irish Literary Society in 1891. The award was given in recognition of Peter’s “notable contribution to Irish literature and cultural scholarship.” He began to publish fiction under the Peter Tremayne pseudonym in 1977 and authored many books in the fantasy genre, based mainly on Celtic themes. In 1993 he began a series of short mystery stories featuring a seventh-century Irish religieuse—Sister Fidelma—which were instantly acclaimed. There are now twelve Sister Fidelma novels and one volume of short stories published. The books appear both in the UK and USA and are translated, so far, into six other European languages. Peter’s work covers a wide field and demonstrates his many interests. There is now an International Sister Fidelma Society, supportive of Peter’s work, with members in twelve countries.

CECILIA DART-THORNTON graduated from Monash University with a degree in sociology. Her interests include writing music, reading nonfiction, the welfare of animals, and environmental conservation. Her fantasy trilogy “The Bitterbynde” is published in twelve countries and earned high praise from reviewers across the world. “The Bitterbynde” comprises The Ill-Made Mute, The Lady of the Sorrows, and The Battle of Evernight. Currently Cecilia is writing a second trilogy entitled “The Crowthistle Chronicles,” beginning with Book #1: The Iron Tree. Her grandparents were born in Ireland, but she now lives in Australia with her husband and two dogs. Her Web site can be visited at www.dartthornton.com.

L. E. MODESITT, JR., has published a number of short stories and technical articles and forty novels, many of which have been translated into German, Polish, Dutch, Czech, and Russian. His latest novels are Darknesses, the second book of the “Corean Chronicles,” his newest fantasy series, and The Ethos Effect. His first published story appeared in Analog in 1973. Born in 1943 in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Modesitt has been, among other occupations, a U.S. Navy pilot; an industrial economist; staff director for a U.S. congressman; director of congressional relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and a consultant