Paul Tran

Paul Tran

About Paul Tran

Paul Tran is an American poet. Their debut poem collection, All the Flowers Kneeling (2022), explores being a survivor and is based on their experience with sexual violence and the experience by women in the family during the wars in Vietnam. All the Flowers Kneeling was a 2022 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick and 2023 PEN Open Book Award finalist. In 2018, Tran won the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and was awarded the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Tran was a 2020-2022 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Pacific University. They are editor of Poetry at the Offing Magazine.

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