Paul Tran Explained

Paul Tran is an American poet.^[1]

Early life and education

Tran is a child of Vietnamese refugees.

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.^[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.

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.

They are an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-04-08 . A National Poetry Month conversation with Paul Tran, author of 'All the Flowers Kneeling' . 2023-09-21 . The Seattle Times . en-US.
2. Web site: Foundation . Poetry . 2023-09-21 . Paul Tran . 2023-09-21 . Poetry Foundation . en.
3. 2022-02-23 . Moving Through Trauma With Poetry . 2023-09-21 . Harper's BAZAAR . en-US.
4. Web site: 2020-06-10 . PEN Open Book Award . 2023-09-21 . PEN America . en.
5. News: 2022-08-04 . 10 New Books We Recommend This Week . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-09-21 . 0362-4331.
6. https://iampaultran.com/