Paul Tran is an American poet.
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.
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. All the Flowers Kneeling was a 2022 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick and 2023 PEN Open Book Award finalist.
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 was a 2020-2022 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford Universityhttps://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship/meet-stegner-fellows/former-stegner-fellows/ and a Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Pacific University. They are an Editor-At-Large at The Offing.
As of 2023, they are an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.https://iampaultran.com/
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