Paul Tran received their BA in history from Brown University and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the chancellor’s graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Paul’s work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere.

POISED TO BREAK OUT: Paul has been awarded major prizes, scholarships, residencies, and fellowships, and their work has appeared in a range of major outlets, including The New Yorker, Poetry, NYLON, and Good Morning America. Astonishing on every level, All the Flowers Kneeling is primed to capture national reviewers' attention and be a candidate for major prizes.

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED: Tran's announcement video for this collection received 20,000+ views across platforms, and comments from Clint Smith, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mahogany Brown, Elizabeth Acevedo, Alexander Chee, and more.

A FORMALLY GROUNDBREAKING COLLECTION: This collection features remarkable formal innovation, including one poem with a new form Tran calls "the Hydra," which modifies received forms like the sonnet and the sestina to enact the emotional and psychological interiority of a survivor of trauma.

GIFTED PERFORMANCE POET: Paul was the first Asian American since 1993-and first transgender poet ever-to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, placing top 10 at the Individual World Poetry Slam and top 2 at the National Poetry Slam. A two-time winner of the Rustbelt Poetry Slam, Paul has served as Poet-in-Residence at Urban Word NYC and head poetry slam coach at Urban Arts Alliance in St. Louis, which won the Brave New Voices Grand Slam Championship in 2019.