Paul Christiansen’s debut poetry collection, River Octopus, was selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2017.
A Saigon-based poet, writer, and editor, Paul is the author of the essay collection, Beneath Saigon’s Chò Nâu (Phương Nam Publishing House), and co-translator of several novels from Vietnamese, including “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 and recipient of two Academy of American Poetry Awards, he received his BA at St. Olaf College and his MFA at Florida International University. Paul works as Content Director for Saigoneer.
Contact: Paul.a.christiansen@gmail.com
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