Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Born in Cork, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin attended University College in her hometown and later studied at Oxford University. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where she lectures in English Renaissance literature, and a member of Aosdána. Together with her husband, poet Macdara Woods, and fellow writers Leland Bardwell and Pearse Hutchinson, she is a founder editor of the literary review Cyphers. Ní Chuilleanáin's poetry collections include Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989), The Brazen Serpent (1994), The Girl who Married the Reindeer (2001) and, most recently, Selected Poems (2008). She has won the Irish Times Award for poetry, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and the O'Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute. In 2010, she was awarded the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry for her collection, The Sun-fish. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin lives in Dublin.