Deirdre Sullivan
{{Short description|Children's writer and poet}}
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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.{{cite web | title=Deirdre Sullivan Interview | website=Sarah Webb | url=https://www.sarahwebb.info/childrens-books/deirdre-sullivan-interview-new | access-date=2019-09-17}}{{cite web | title=Writer's Block with Deirdre Sullivan | website=The Gloss Magazine | date=2016-04-21 | url=https://thegloss.ie/writers-block-with-deirdre-sullivan-2/ | access-date=2019-09-17}}{{cite web | last=Barry | first=Aoife | title="I wrote from anger": This hard-hitting Irish book is about tattoos and tragedy | website=TheJournal.ie | url=https://www.thejournal.ie/deirdre-sullivan-interview-needlework-2662956-Mar2016/ | access-date=2019-09-17}}{{cite web | title=Deirdre Sullivan | website=Poetry Ireland | url=https://www.poetryireland.ie/education/writers-directory/deirdre-sullivan | access-date=2019-09-17}}{{cite web | last=Examiner | first=Irish | title=A question of taste: Children’s author Deirdre Sullivan | website=irishexaminer.com | date=2018-05-03 | url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/culture/a-question-of-taste-childrens-author-deirdre-sullivan-840618.html | access-date=2019-09-17}}{{cite web | last=Sutton | first=Jeanne | title=Novelist Deirdre Sullivan On Writing Trauma And The Buzz Around YA Novels | website=IMAGE.ie | date=2016-03-02 | url=https://www.image.ie/life/novelist-deirdre-sullivan-writing-trauma-buzz-around-ya-novels-52331 | access-date=2019-09-17}}{{cite web | title=Deirdre Sullivan and Karen Vaughan win Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award | website=The Irish Times | date=2013-03-21 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/deirdre-sullivan-and-karen-vaughan-win-children-s-books-ireland-book-of-the-year-award-1.3506996 | access-date=2019-09-17}}
Her young adult novel Savage Her Reply (2020) was included among the 41 titles selected for the 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Books List.{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=2024 USBBY Outstanding International Books |url=https://www.usbby.org/uploads/1/0/7/0/107064867/usbby_oib_bookmark_2024.pdf |website=www.usbby.org}}
In 2021, her story, Little Lives won 'Short Story of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards.{{Cite web|date=2021-11-29|title=The best of the best! Irish Book Awards 2021 winners revealed|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/irish-book-awards-2021-winners|access-date=2021-12-01|website=IrishCentral.com|language=en}}
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
References and sources
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Category:Writers from Galway (city)
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Irish women writers
Category:Irish children's writers
Category:Irish women children's writers
Category:Irish fantasy writers