Paul Tran is a slam poet and author who has won the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from Poetry Magazine and the Poetry Foundation, and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize.
Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Tran has authored a debut poetry collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling” — forthcoming from Penguin Books.
Their work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry and elsewhere, including the Lionsgate movie “Love Beats Rhymes” with Azealia Banks, Common and Jill Scott. They are the first Asian American since 1993 to win the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam, placing top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and top 2 at the National Poetry Slam.
Tran earned an M.F.A. in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow and Senior Poetry Fellow.
Tran is poetry editor at The Offing, which won a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize from the Whiting Foundation.
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