Deirdre Sullivan Explained

Deirdre Sullivan
Birth Place:	Galway, Ireland
Nationality:	Irish

Deirdre Sullivan is an Irish children's writer and poet.

Early life and education

Sullivan was born in Galway. Sullivan went to college and became a teacher working with autistic children. She now lives in Ranelagh in Dublin. Sullivan took a course with Siobhán Parkinson who taught creative writing at Colaiste Mhuire, Marino, Dublin. Her lecturer commissioned her to write her first book. Several of her books have been shortlisted for awards and Tangleweed and Brine won the 28th CBI Book of the Year Awards, written with illustrator Karen Vaughan. Sullivan's first play Wake debuted in Galway in February 2019.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

In 2021, her story, "Little Lives" won 'Short Story of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards.^[8]

Bibliography

• Prim Improper, Little Island, 2010
• The Nightmare Club 1: Help! My Brother is a Zombie!, Little Island, 2010
• The Nightmare Club 2: Guinea Pig Killer, Little Island, 2010
• The Nightmare Club 3: The Hatching, Little Island 2012
• Seeing Red, Watching My Hands at Work: A festschrift for Adrian Frazier, Salmon Poetry 2013
• Improper Order, Little Island, 2013
• Primperfect, Little Island, 2014
• Needlework, Little Island, 2016
• Tangleweed and Brine, Little Island, 2017
• Perfectly Preventable Deaths, Hot Key, 2019
• Savage Her Reply, Little Island, 2020
• I Want To Know That I will Be Okay, Banshee Press, 2021
• Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths 2), Hot Key, 2021
• Weave, collaboration with Oein DeBharduin and Yingge Xu (Illustrator), Skein Press, 2022
• Wise Creatures, Hot Key, 2023

Notes and References

1. Web site: Deirdre Sullivan Interview . Sarah Webb . 2019-09-17.
2. Web site: Writer's Block with Deirdre Sullivan . The Gloss Magazine . 2016-04-21 . 2019-09-17.
3. Web site: Barry . Aoife . "I wrote from anger": This hard-hitting Irish book is about tattoos and tragedy . TheJournal.ie . 2019-09-17.
4. Web site: Deirdre Sullivan . Poetry Ireland . 2019-09-17.
5. Web site: Examiner . Irish . A question of taste: Children’s author Deirdre Sullivan . irishexaminer.com . 2018-05-03 . 2019-09-17.
6. Web site: Sutton . Jeanne . Novelist Deirdre Sullivan On Writing Trauma And The Buzz Around YA Novels . IMAGE.ie . 2016-03-02 . 2019-09-17.
7. Web site: Deirdre Sullivan and Karen Vaughan win Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award . The Irish Times . 2013-03-21 . 2019-09-17.
8. Web site: 2021-11-29. The best of the best! Irish Book Awards 2021 winners revealed. 2021-12-01. IrishCentral.com. en.