Trasna Editorial Team

Christine O’Connor

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

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.