Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City. She was a founder member of Cyphers, the literary journal (1975). Her first collection, Acts and Monuments, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. The Gallery...view moreEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City. She was a founder member of Cyphers, the literary journal (1975). Her first collection, Acts and Monuments, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. The Gallery Press has published her eight collections of poems including The Girl who Married the Reindeer, The Sun-fish, which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and Selected Poems.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin lives in Dublin where she is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emeritus) at Trinity College and a member of Aosdána (the Irish Association to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland). She has recently been appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016-2019.view less