About

Helen Cullen is an Irish writer living in Winchester. Her second novel, The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually, is out now. Her third novel, Iseult, will be published on February, 4th 2027 and is now available to pre-order.

Helen’s debut novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf was published by Penguin Random House in the UK, Ireland, Australia and South Africa and published in America by Harper Collins. The novel garnered Helen a Best Newcomer nomination in the An Post Irish Book Awards.

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. The novels are also available in translation in numerous foreign markets.

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. 

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

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