Julie Goo is a bilingual poet and autism class teacher from Cork City whose debut collection Dána was published by Coiscéim in 2021. Her work has been translated into German and Italian, and she is an Irish-language guest editor for HOWL New Irish Writing. A former Munster slam poetry champion, she is also one half of shelovescalpol (SLC), Cork’s bilingual electronic hip-hop duo. She has performed at Electric Picnic – as a poet on the Word Stage, An Puball Gaeilge and Croí, and with shelovescalpol on the Hazelwood and late-night Brutopolis stages. She is a board member of Ó Bhéal go Béal and AerachAiteachGaelach.