# Paul Tran

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**Paul Tran** is an American poet.[1]

## Early life and education

Tran is a child of Vietnamese refugees.[1]

They have a Bachelor's degree from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University) and a Master of Fine Arts from [Washington University](/source/Washington_University_in_St._Louis).[2]

## Work

Tran survived childhood abuse by family and rape when in college. Their debut poem collection, *[All the Flowers Kneeling](/source/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.[1][3] *All the Flowers Kneeling* was a 2022 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick and 2023 [PEN Open Book Award](/source/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.[2]

Tran was a 2020-2022 [Wallace Stegner Fellow](/source/Stegner_Fellowship) in Poetry at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University)[6] and a Visiting Fellow in Poetry at [Pacific University](/source/Pacific_University). They are an Editor-At-Large at *The Offing*.[7]

As of 2023, they are an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the [University of Wisconsin-Madison](/source/University_of_Wisconsin-Madison).[8]

## References

1. ["A National Poetry Month conversation with Paul Tran, author of 'All the Flowers Kneeling'"](https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/a-national-poetry-month-conversation-with-paul-tran-author-of-all-the-flowers-kneeling/). *The Seattle Times*. 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2023-09-21.

1. Foundation, Poetry (2023-09-21). ["Paul Tran"](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-tran). *Poetry Foundation*. Retrieved 2023-09-21.

1. ["Moving Through Trauma With Poetry"](https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a39077778/moving-through-trauma-with-poetry/). *Harper's BAZAAR*. 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2023-09-21.

1. ["PEN Open Book Award"](https://pen.org/pen-open-book-award/). *PEN America*. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2023-09-21.

1. ["10 New Books We Recommend This Week"](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/books/recommended-new-books.html). *The New York Times*. 2022-08-04. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2023-09-21.

1. [https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship/meet-stegner-fellows/former-stegner-fellows/](https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship/meet-stegner-fellows/former-stegner-fellows/)

1. Tran, Paul. ["Paul Tran"](https://theoffingmag.com/contributor/paul-tran/). *The Offing*. Retrieved 2026-02-03.

1. [https://iampaultran.com/](https://iampaultran.com/)

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