Paul Christiansen is the author of Beneath Saigon’s Chò Nâu (Phương Nam Publishing House), a bilingual collection of essays; co-translator of “Light Out” and Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930–1954 (Northern Illinois University Press) and Dạ Ngân’s Người yêu (forthcoming, University of Texas Tech); the editor and curator of In My Ear, Your Voice Still Flickering // Bên tai tôi, giọng người vẫn chờn vờn, a three-part bilingual collection of Vietnamese art and literature; and the co-editor of A Rainy Night in the City (Hanoi Publishing House), a bilingual anthology of short stories.
Paul’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Plume, New Ohio Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. His poetry manuscript, River Octopus, was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize and the Wheelbarrow Books Prize.
A former Fulbright Fellow, he received his BA at St. Olaf College and his MFA at Florida International University. Paul resides in Saigon and works as Content Director for Saigoneer.
Contact: Paul.a.christiansen@gmail.com
Paul Christiansen 