Trasna Editorial Team

Christine O’Connor – founding editor

Chris is completing a collection of literary-themed essays, and a memoir centered around the Titanic. Her work has appeared in Atlantic Currents, Maine Boat Magazine, the Lowell Review, Beir Bua Press, as a presenter at the Annual Gathering Thoreau Society (2021); and a Contributor at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference (2023). She holds an M.A. in American Studies from Boston College, a J.D. from Suffolk University, and is pursuing an MFA (low residency) at Bennington College, (2024-2026). She serves as Town Counsel for North Andover, Massachusetts. 

Margaret O’Brien – founding editor

Margaret lives on the Tipperary / Waterford border in south-east Ireland. She co-founded The Story House Ireland (2014 – 2018) and lectured in English and Creative Writing at Waterford Institute of Technology. She curated the annual Brewery Lane Writers’ W/E for a decade, from 2014 to 2024, and runs the monthly open mic, Poetry Plus, and her own workshops, Writing Changes Lives, in Brewery Lane Theatre, Carrick-on-Suir and online. She is an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and her work has been published nationally and internationally. Her book, Weather Report, was released in September 2022.

Cindy Sabik – associate editor

Cindy Sabik is an essayist, educator and consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio.  She has served as an editor for The Poetry Center, the small press at Cleveland State University; editor of Whiskey Island, the literary magazine at Cleveland State; and as editor of Collaborations, a journal devoted to helping teachers write collaboratively about their practice.  She has taught English and writing in high schools and colleges, and undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education.  She periodically offers adult education courses on a variety of literary themes at the Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. She holds an MA in English Literature, a PhD in urban education, and is completing her MFA in Creative Non-Fiction at Bennington College. She is working on a book of essays and a book on intentional listening.