Helen Cullen is an Irish writer and academic living in England. Her debut novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf, was published in 2018 by Penguin Random House in the UK and Ireland, published in the USA by Harper Collins in 2019 and in translation to numerous foreign markets. Described as "Enchanting, intriguing, deeply moving" by the Irish Times, the novel garnered Helen a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2018 Irish Book Awards.
Helen's second novel, The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House in Ireland and the UK, by Harper Collins in America and in translation. Described as "a compassionate portrayal of grief" by the Irish Times and "a book of rare quality" by the iPaper, the novel has achieved great critical acclaim.
Helen holds a B.A. Communications from Dublin City University, an M.A. Theatre Studies from University College Dublin and M.A. in English Literature at Brunel University in London and is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University, London. Helen also works as a literary critic for the Irish Times newspaper and writes for the Sunday Times Magazine in the UK.
You can find Helen on Twitter as @wordsofhelen and at www.helencullen.ie