Paul Christiansen is the author of the essay collection, Beneath Saigon’s Chò Nâu (Phương Nam Publishing House) and 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).
Paul’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Plume, New Ohio Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.
A former Fulbright Fellow, he received his BA at St. Olaf College and his MFA at Florida International University, where he received two Academy of American Poetry Awards. Paul resides in Saigon and works as Content Director for Saigoneer.
Contact: Paul.a.christiansen@gmail.com
Paul Christiansen 