Paula Meehan was born in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University in the U.S. She has published seven collections of poetry which have received both popular and critical acclaim. She has moderated workshops in the community, in the prisons, and in recovery programs, and has worked extensively with emerging poets inside and outside the universities. Her work has been translated into French, Getman, Galician, Italian, Japanese, Estonian, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Dutch, and Irish. She has received the Butler Literary Award for Poetry presented by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, the Denis Devlin Award for Dharmakaya (published in 2000), The Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 2015, and the PPI Award for Radio Drama. She was honored with election to Aosdana, the Irish Academy for the Arts, in 1996. She was Ireland Professor of Poetry, 2013—2016, and her public lectures from these years, Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them, was published by UCD Press in 2016. Geomantic was published by Dedalus Press, Dublin, in 2016 and received a Cholmondelay Award.

Books by Paula Meehan:

Other poems on the web by Paula Meehan:
Three poems
"The Pattern"
"Death of a Field"