Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently Howdie-Skelp (2021) and Joy in Service on Rue Tagore (2024), both published by FSG and Faber & Faber. He won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1994, its second year, for his collection The Annals of Chile, and was also shortlisted for Hay (1998), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002) and Horse Latitudes (2006); he was Chair of the T. S. Eliot Prize judges in 2000. His other awards include: the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author photo © Gary Doak
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