Paul Tran’s work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. Tran received their B.A. in history from Brown University and an 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. In their debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books), Tran investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, his work elucidates reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self. It’s an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.