Adam Cullen

Adam Cullen (1986) is a poet and translator of Estonian prose, poetry, theater, and children’s literature into English. A member of the Estonian Writers’ Union, his most recent published translations include Paavo Matsin's Gogol's Disco (Dalkey Archive Press 2020), Tõnu Õnnepalu's Exercises (Dalkey Archive Press 2020), Eno Raud’s The Gothamites (Elsewhere Editions 2019), Kai Aareleid’s Burning Cities (Peter Owen Publishers 2018; long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award), contributions to New Baltic Poetry (Partian 2018) and The Butterfly Man and Other Stories by Mehis Heinsaar (Paper + Ink 2018), Rein Raud’s The Reconstruction (Dalkey Archive Press 2017), and Mihkel Mutt’s The Inner Immigrant (Dalkey Archive Press 2017). Several of his translations have been nominated for the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s Award for Literary Translation. To date, Cullen has also published two collections of original poetry in Estonia. Originally from Minnesota, he has lived in Estonia for over a decade.