• Source: Deirdre Sullivan

      • 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.
      Her young adult novel Savage Her Reply (2020) was included among the 41 titles selected for the 2024 USBBY Outstanding International Books List.
      In 2021, her story, Little Lives won 'Short Story of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards.


      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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