Paul Muldoon

Poet; Howard GB Clark '21 Professor, Princeton University

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet and writer. He was educated at the Queen's University in Belfast before working as a radio and television producer for BBC in Belfast between 1973 and 1986. After leaving the BBC, he taught English and creative writing at Caius College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. He moved to America in 1987, and now teaches creative writing at Princeton, where he is the Howard GB Clark '21 Professor. He was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 1999 to 2004, and has been The New Yorker's poetryy editor since 2007.

Muldoon has published over twenty collections of poetry since his first, Knowing My Place in 1973, including New Weather (1977), Mules (1998) and, more recently, Plan B (2009) and Maggot (2010). He has received numerous awards for his poetry and writing, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature (1996), the TS Eliot Prize (1994), the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, and the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He is also a A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.