Paula Meehan

Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives.
She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and in the US at Eastern
Washington University. She has published seven collections of
poetry, the most recent of which is Geomantic (2016), for which
she received a Cholmondeley Award. Other awards and
honours include the Butler Literary Award for Poetry presented
by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Marten Toonder
Award for Literature, the Denis Devlin Award, The Lawrence
O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, and the PPI Award for Radio
Drama. Dedalus Press also publishes Music for Dogs, a
collection of work for radio. A member of Aosdána, she was
Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2013 to 2016.