Paul Tran

Paul Tran is an American poet.[1]

Early life and education

Tran is a child of Vietnamese refugees.[1]

They have a Bachelor's degree from Brown University and a Master of Fine Arts from Washington University.[2]

Work

Tran survived childhood abuse by family and rape when in college. 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.[1][3] All the Flowers Kneeling was a 2022 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick and 2023 PEN Open Book Award finalist.[4][5]

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.[2]

Tran is a 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.[1]

Personal life

Tran in transgender.[1]

References
  1. "A National Poetry Month conversation with Paul Tran, author of 'All the Flowers Kneeling'". The Seattle Times. 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  2. Foundation, Poetry (2023-09-21). "Paul Tran". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  3. "Moving Through Trauma With Poetry". Harper's BAZAAR. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  4. "PEN Open Book Award". PEN America. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
  5. "10 New Books We Recommend This Week". The New York Times. 2022-08-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
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