Paula Meehan Author & Editor

Paula Meehan was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College Dublin and at Eastern Washington University. She has published six original award winning collections of poetry: Return and No Blame (1984), Reading the Sky (1986), The Man Who Was Marked by Winter (1991), Pillow Talk (1994), Dharmakaya (2000) and Painting Rain (2009). She has also written plays for adults and children and has held residencies in universities, in prisons and in the wider community. She has received the Butler Literary Award for Poetry, presented by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, the Denis Devlin Award (for Dharmakaya), and the PPI Award for Radio Drama. In 2015 she received the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry and was inducted into the Hennessy Literary Hall of Fame. Meehan is a member of Aosdana and was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2013 to 2016. Geomaniic, a new collection of poems, is forthcoming autumn 2016.