Ms Helen Cullen
Reader in Creative Writing

Summary

Helen Cullen is an Irish writer and academic living in London.  Helen worked at RTE (Ireland’s national broadcaster) for seven years before moving to London in 2010 where she then worked in marketing for companies such as Google.

Her debut novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf was published by Penguin in July 2018 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and South Africa and published in America by Harper Collins in June 2019. The novel is also available in translation in numerous foreign markets including Italy, Germany, Russia, Greece and Israel where it hit the bestseller charts. The Lost Letters of William Woolf has also been optioned for television by Mainstreet Pictures with the novel also garnering Helen a Best Newcomer nomination in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018.

Her second novel, The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually, was published in Ireland and the UK and as The Dazzling Truth in the USA and Canada in August 2020 to great critical acclaim. It is also published widely in translation in numerous foreign markets. 

Helen holds a B.A.Communicatons from DCU,  M.A. Theatre Studies from UCD, M.A. English Literature at Brunel University and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia.

She also a literary critic for the Irish Times newspaper as a literary critic and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times Magazine.

Helen is also the Programme Lead for the MSc Creative Writing for Marketing.

You can find Helen on Twitter, instagram and Facebook as @wordsofhelen

Qualifications

B.A. Communications, Dublin City University

M.A. Modern Drama and Performance Studies, University College Dublin

M.A. English Literature, Brunel University

PhD Creative and Critical Writing, University of East Anglia

Responsibility

Programme Lead, MSc Creative Writing for Marketing