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Paul Tran is a Vietnamese-American poet, activist, and historian.
Tran grew up in San Diego, California, and attended high school at the Preuss School University of California San Diego before moving to Providence, Rhode Island to begin college. Tran identifies as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. They serve as the poetry editor for The Offing Magazine.
Tran received their BA in history from Brown University in 2014 and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where they were the chancellor's graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They won the Poetry Foundation award in 2018, and the Kundiman Fellowship in 2017.
Tran has been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lillyand Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize.
In February 2022, Tran published their debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling with Penguin Random House.