VUKASIN NEDELJKOVIC is a visual artist and PhD student at the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice at Dublin Institute of Technology. He initiated the multidisciplinary project Asylum Archive. Asylum Archive is not just a singular art project that stands ‘outside of society’ engaged in an internal conversation. Rather it is a platform open for dialogue and discussion including all individuals who have experienced a sense of sociological/geographical ‘displacement’, social trauma and violence. It is an act of solidarity meant to provide a different perspective on the life of people who came to Ireland to seek protection. The objective of Asylum Archive is to collaborate with asylum seekers, artists, academics, civil society activists and immigration lawyers, amongst others, with a view to creating an interactive documentary cross-platform online resource, critically foregrounding accounts of exile, displacement, trauma and memory.  www.asylumarchive.com

SARAH CLANCY is a page and performance poet from Galway. Her most recent collection The Truth and Other Stories was published by Salmon Poetry in 2014. She has two previous collections under her name,  Stacey and the Mechanical Bull (Lapwing Press, Belfast, 2011) and Thanks for Nothing, Hippies (Salmon Poetry, 2012). She has been placed or shortlisted in several of Ireland’s most prestigious written poetry competitions, including The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize, The Listowel Collection of Poetry Prize and The Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her work has been anthologised in Windharp: Poems from Ireland since 1916, edited by Niall Mc Monagle, and in Even the Daybreak: 35 years of Salmon Poetry, edited by Jessie Lendennie’, and included in Poetry Ireland Review’s “Current Rising Generation” issue. Her work has been published in the United States, Canada and the UK, and in translation in Poland, Slovenia, Mexico and Italy.  In performance poetry she won the Cuirt International Festival of Literature Grand Slam Championships in 2011, she was runner up in the North Beach Nights Grand Slam Final in both 2012 and 2013, and was runner up in the All- Ireland Grand Slam Championship in 2013. In 2015 she won the Bogman’s Cannon Irish People’s Poet award.