Oein DeBhairduin is a writer, activist and educator with a passion for preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. Oein is the author of the award-winning Why the moon travels. His other works are Weave, The Slug and the Snail and Twiggy Woman. He is the Curator of Traveller Culture with the National Museum of Ireland and seeks to pair community activism with cultural celebration, recalling old tales with fresh modern connections and, most of all, he wishes to rekindle the hearth fires of a shared kinship.

Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer and teacher from Galway. She has written eight books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply (Little Island 2020), and a collection of short fiction, I Want To Know That I Will Be Okay (Banshee Press 2021).

Yingge Xu is an ink brush artist, meditator and art teacher. From early childhood, she followed her father while he practiced Tai Qi, meditation and calligraphy. Later she trained at the Chinese Flower and Bird Painting Institute and continued her learning with ink brush artists from both China and Japan. Moving to Ireland in 2015 inspired a new perspective on her own art and cultural background. In this collaboration, she used the wheel of the year to respond to the stories while incorporating traditional elements from her culture and the practice of ink brush painting. Her Weave paintings acknowledge the suffering caused by fear, uncertainty and violence, and, at the same time, strive to touch and inspire joy, hope and possibility in life.