Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon was born in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland and is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast. He published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. Muldoon is the author of nine books of poetry, including Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting the British (1987), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards and honours include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1999, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the 2004 Shakespeare Prize. Paul Muldoon's latest collection, Horse Latitudes, was published in 2006.