Catherine Ann Cullen was the first Poetry Ireland poet in residence and is a writer.

Biography

Catherine Ann Cullen was born in

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, County Louth. She has an M.Phil in Creative Writing from

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

and a PhD from

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. Her work has won a gold award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parenting Products Association. In 2016 and 2009 Cullen won the

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International Poetry Award. In 2018 she was a recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship for her work. She has held several residencies in schools and was for three years (2016 to 2019) A&L Goodbody Writer in Residence at St Joseph's Co-Ed School, East Wall, Dublin 3, for which she was awarded the 2017 Business to Arts Award for Best Use of Creativity in the Community. She is part of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at

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. Her work has been included in many anthologies and has been broadcast on

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. Cullen has worked as a lecturer in journalism and a radio producer based in

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. In 2019 she was made the inaugural Poet in Residence at

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for two years.

Bibliography

* ''All Better! Poems for Children about Illness and Recovery'' (Little Island 2019) * ''The Other Now: New and Selected Poems'' (Dedalus Press 2016) * ''Strange Familiar'' (Doghouse 2013) * ''A Bone in My Throat'' (Doghouse 2007) * ''Thirsty Baby'' (Little,Brown 2003) * ''The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat'' (Little, Brown 2001)

References and sources

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