Catherine Ann Cullen Non-Member Joined 2021

Poet, children's writer, songwriter,ballad scholar

Fiction Poetry Nonfiction

Catherine Ann Cullen was the inaugural Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland 2019-2021 and was A&L Goodbody Writer in Residence at St Joseph’s School, East Wall 2016-2019. She is twice winner of the nationwide B2A award for Best Use of Creativity in the Community. She has published four poetry collections, including Storm Damage (Dedalus 2025) and four children’s books in verse, including The Song of Brigid’s Cloak (Beehive 2022). Her first book, The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat (Little, Brown, 2001) won a Gold Award for Poetry and Folklore from the American Parenting Products Association. She is currently writing a book on the lost street poets and tenement balladeers of nineteenth century Dublin.

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