DR HELEN CULLEN

Helen Cullen is an Irish novelist and academic. She has published two novels to date, The Lost Letters of William Woolf and The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually, with Penguin Random House in the UK and Ireland, Harper Collins in North America and in translation to numerous foreign markets. Her debut novel also garnered Helen a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2018 Irish Book Awards. The novel has also been optioned by Mainstreet Pictures for a TV adaptation.

Helen is also a literary critic for the Irish Times newspaper and a regular contributor to The Sunday Times Magazine and radio programmes for the BBC and RTE.

Helen is a Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel University. In 2024 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy having completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA. She recently completed her third novel.