Paul Christensen
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Paul Christensen is a poet and essayist, and coordinator of creative writing at Texas A&M University. His poems have appeared in journals and reviews throughout the United States and Europe, and are collected in seven books of poetry, two of which won the Violet Crown Award for best work of literature awarded by the Writers' League of Texas. He was the first to receive Antioch Review's Distinguished Prose award for his essay, "In Praise of Bluffing". Christensen was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in 1990 and has been awarded Fulbright senior lectureships to Norway and Austria. His books of prose include studies of Charles Olson and Clayton Eshleman, and memoirs of his writing life in Texas (West of the American Dream: An Encounter with Texas) and his 23 years living in a southern French village (Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence).
Winning Entry: Memories, My Life as an American, My Neighbor’s Secret
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2009, Honorable Mention
