James G. Cullinane completed his Bachelor of Arts in Literature at Empire State College in October 1997 and his Master of Arts in Creative Writing (MAW) at Manhattanville College in May 2000. For h...view moreJames G. Cullinane completed his Bachelor of Arts in Literature at Empire State College in October 1997 and his Master of Arts in Creative Writing (MAW) at Manhattanville College in May 2000. For his thesis in the MAW program, he wrote a play, A Love So Blind, which was produced in Dungarvan, Waterford, Ireland in June 2000 and at The Irish Arts Theatre, Manhattan in July 2000. His second play, The Sheare Street Social Club, was produced at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 West Thirty-Sixth Street in Manhattan, New York in January 2008, and in Dungarvan, Waterford, Ireland in January 2020. A video of the play was scheduled for Dungarvan Cinema a few months after, but, due to Covid, was cancelled. He has written a memoir, Arses & Elbows, published in 2007 and Imagine, One Man’s Journey, reflections on man’s connection to God, in 2016. He continues to write plays, short stories, and poetry. His work has been published in Inkwell Magazine, New Orleans Review and Toronto Irish News.
He grew up in Abbeyside, County Waterford, and now resides in Mount Kisco, New York with his wife, Anne (nee Tyrrell), also from Abbeyside. They have four children, Patricia, Catriona, Christine and Terence, and four grandchildren, Tom and Brendan Morgan and Luke and Logan Bueti.view less