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Paul Guest (born in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American poet and memoirist.

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Biography

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. [1] He is a quadriplegic. He graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and from Southern Illinois University with an M.F.A. in 1999. [2] [3] He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

His poems appear in Harper's , The Paris Review , Tin House , The Kenyon Review , The Missouri Review , Slate and elsewhere.

Honors and awards

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

a Memoir

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References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Verse Daily: Paul Guest". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. "Bulletin Board: MFA Carbondale: MFA Graduate Paul Guest Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship!!". Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2011-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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