Majella Cullinane

Majella Cullinane, born in Limerick, Ireland is an author based in New Zealand.

Background Born and raised in Ireland, Cullinane became a New Zealand resident in 2008. She has a MLitt. in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and completed a PhD in Creative Practice at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago. Her doctoral advisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Liam McIlvanney. She currently lives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

Awards Her first novel, The Life of De'Ath, was shortlisted for the 2016 Dundee International Book Prize. and longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

In 2014 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Cullinane has also received a Seán Dunne Young Writers' Awards for Poetry, an Irish Arts Council Award