Paul Tran
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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]
They are an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the
Personal life
Tran is transgender.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "A National Poetry Month conversation with Paul Tran, author of 'All the Flowers Kneeling'". The Seattle Times. 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ a b Foundation, Poetry (2023-09-21). "Paul Tran". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "Moving Through Trauma With Poetry". Harper's BAZAAR. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "PEN Open Book Award". PEN America. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ https://iampaultran.com/