Emily E Cullen
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Part-time lecturer in Creative Writing, School of English, NUI Galway |
| Location | Galway, County Galway, Ireland |
| Introduction | I'm a writer, curator, scholar and harper living in Galway, Ireland. I'm also a mum, feminist, Gaeilgeoir and complete chocoholic! I'm honoured to be the Meskell UL-Fifty Poet in Residence. I've published three poetry collections: Conditional Perfect (Doire Press, 2019), In Between Angels and Animals (Arlen House, 2013) and No Vague Utopia (Ainnir Publishing, 2003). Between 2017 and 2019, I was Director of Galway's annual Cuirt International Festival of Literature. I was a selected reader for Poetry Ireland's 'Introductions' series in 2004 and appointed Curator of the Patrick Kavanagh Centenary that year. A former member of the Belfast Harp Orchestra, I recorded on a number of albums (including the Grammy award-winning 'Tribute to the Celtic Harp' with 'The Chieftains' and 'Maidens of the Celtic Harp' (Sugo Music). I'm a qualified teacher of the harp who performs nationally and internationally. In 2008, I earned my PhD in English publish widely on literature, Irish music and cultural history. You can read a sample of my work on my academia.edu page linked below. Thanks for visiting my blog & see you again soon! |
| Interests | Writing poetry, essays and fiction, playing the Irish harp, piano, ukulele, guitar, reading voraciously - anything and everything, listening to contemporary music across a range of genres including electronica, funk, house, classical, Irish traditional, cinema, knitting, cooking, travel, nature |
| Favorite movies | Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Breakfast at Tiffanys, etc. |
| Favorite music | Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Massive Attack, Alan Braxe, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, LCD Soundsystem, Roy Ayers, Cut Copy, |
| Favorite books | In no particular order: The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley, Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan, A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys, The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter, Providence by Anita Brookner, Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble, Object Lessons by Eavan Boland, Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Complete Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Lorrie Moore, etc. |