Paul Christiansen is the author of Beneath Saigon’s Chò Nâu (Phương Nam Publishing House), a bilingual collection of essays; co-translator of “Light Out” and Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930–1954 (Northern Illinois University Press) and Dạ Ngân’s Người yêu (forthcoming, University of Texas Tech); and the editor and curator of In My Ear, Your Voice Still Flickering // Bên tai tôi, giọng người vẫn chờn vờn, a three-part bilingual collection of Vietnamese art and literature; and the co-editor of A Rainy Night in the City (Hanoi Publishing House), a bilingual anthology of short stories.
Paul’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Plume, Threepenny Review and elsewhere. A former Fulbright Fellow, he received his BA at St. Olaf College and his MFA at Florida International University. He resides in Saigon and works as Content Director for Saigoneer.
Contact: Paul.a.christiansen@gmail.com
Paul Christiansen 