Emily Cullen

Dr. Emily Cullen is the UL Meskell Poet in Residence and a lecturer on the MA in Creative Writing programme. Emily devised and oversees the regular ‘Espresso Shot of Thought’ poetry series in collaboration with the MA students. Emily has published three collections: Conditional Perfect (Doire Press, 2019), In Between Angels and Animals (Arlen House, 2013) and No Vague Utopia (Ainnir Publishing, 2003). Conditional Perfect was included in The Irish Times round-up of “the best new poetry of 2019.” Emily is also a cultural producer and harper who has performed throughout Europe, Australia and the United States. She was awarded an IRC fellowship for her doctoral research on the Irish harp and gained a PhD in English in 2008. Emily frequently publishes essays on Irish music and cultural history, as well as on modernist and contemporary poetry. Emily has served as Arts Officer of the University of Galway (1999-2002), Director of the Patrick Kavanagh Centenary (2004) and Director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature (2017-2019). Her eco-poem about the River Shannon, "I Am Sionann," has just been realised as a poem film by Luke Morgan with the support of an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award.