About

Helen Cullen is an Irish writer living in Winchester. Her second novel, The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually, is out now.

Helen worked at RTE (Ireland’s national broadcaster) for seven years before moving to London in 2010.

Her debut novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf was published by Penguin in July 2018 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and South Africa and published in America by Harper Collins in June 2019. The novel garnered Helen a Best Newcomer nomination in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018. The Lost Letters of William Woolf has also been optioned for television by Mainstreet Pictures.

Her second novel, The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually, was published in Ireland and the UK and as The Dazzling Truth in the USA and Canada in August 2020.

Helen’s novels are also available in translation in numerous foreign markets including Italy, Germany, Russia, Greece and Israel.

She is now writing full-time and is a also a literary critic for the Irish Times newspaper and a regular contributor to Sunday Times Magazine. Helen is also a lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University London and is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia.

You can find Helen on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook as @wordsofhelen