Paul Muldoon was born in Northern Ireland and educated at the Queen’s University of Belfast. He worked as a radio and TV producer for the BBC during 1973 to 1986, and Muldoon immigrated to the United States in 1987. In 2007, he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker.
His other achievements include a fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal Society of Literature. Maldoon was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature in 1996. He also received the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American-Ireland Fun Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry.
His notable publishes works are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), and Maggot (2010). His work has been included in many anthologies, and he has also published many dramas, children books, in addition to essays and criticisms. Some of his other works include his children books Reverse Flannery: Magical Tales of Ireland (2003), The Noctuary of Narcissus Batt (1997), The Last Thesaurus (1995), and The O-O’s Party (1981), as well as his dramas Vera of Las Vegas (2001), Bandanna (1999), Six Honest Serving Men (1995), Shining Brow (1993), and Monkeys (1989).
His poem “Rainer Maria Rilke: The Unicorn” appeared in Issue 9.1-Winter/Spring. You can find a review of his book, Maggot, in Issue 23.1-Winter/Spring 2011.
