Paula Meehan was born in Dublin where she still lives. Besides six award winning and critically acclaimed poetry collections she has also written plays for both adults and children. She has conducted residencies in universities, in prisons, in the wider community, and her poems and plays have been translated into many languages, including Irish.

Recent collections are Dharmakaya and Painting Rain, from Carcanet Press, Manchester. Music for Dogs a collection of award winning radio plays is available from Dedalus Press, Dublin. 

A collection of critical essays on her poetry and plays and an interview with Paula was published as a special issue by the U.S. journal An Sionnach. It can be accessed here at Project Muse for free: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/an_sionnach/