Paul Cunningham is the Creative Writing Program Manager at the University of Notre Dame, where he also co-manages Action Books, an international poetry and translation press. He is the recipient of the 2021 Diann Blakely Poetry Prize and the 2015 Sparks Prize Fellowship. He is the author of A False Tongue (forthcoming from White Stag Press in 2027), Brillo(Lavender Ink, 2025), Sociocide at the 24/7 (DIAGRAM, 2025), and two titles from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (2020). He is also one of the collaborators in Katrine Øgaard Jensen's Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025). From the Swedish, he is the translator of Helena Österlund’s Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019). He has translated two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias: Selected Poems (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). His most recent poetry chapbook is The Inmost (Carrion Bloom Books, 2020). His interests include literary translation in theory and practice, decadent poetics, fashion history and design, and ecocritical studies. He is also a board member of co•im•press, NonfictioNOW, and a faculty member of the International Network for the Comparative Humanities (INCH).
