Helen Cullen

Biography

Helen Cullen is an Irish novelist who has published two novels to date, The Lost Letters of William Woolf (2018) and The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually (2021), 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. 

Before publishing, Helen worked previously in broadcasting, and most recently in marketing for Google UK. Helen holds a B.A. Communications, M.A. Theatre Studies, M.A. English Literature and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is also a Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel University, a literary critic for the Irish Times newspaper and a writer for the Sunday Times Magazine. 

Her third novel, Iseult, will be published in February 2027, the first novel in what will become the House of Gonne duology.

Bibliography 

The Lost Letters of William Woolf (2018)

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually (2021)

Iseult (February 2027)

Maud (Expected, February 2028)