About Paul Guest
Born 1900. Paul Guest was a poet.
Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.
Early life and education Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. When he was twelve, Guest broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down. He is a quadriplegic.
He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999.
Career Guest's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, The Nation, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Slate and elsewhere. They are also published in collections as books.
Honors and awards 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 2010 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series 2007 Whiting Award 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry 2002 New Issues Press Poetry Prize
Published works Poetry collections (forthcoming in 2028)
Memoir
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American writer
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Paul Guest was born in 1900 in Chattanooga.
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Paul Guest was a poet.
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