Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham is a writer, filmmaker, editor, translator, and educator. He currently serves as the University of Notre Dame's Creative Writing Program Manager, where he also teaches. He co-manages Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation. He is the author of Fall Garment (Schism Press, 2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism Press, 2020). His next chapbook, Sociocide at the 24/7, is forthcoming from New Michigan Press in 2025. From the Swedish, he is the translator of Helena Österlund’s Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019) and two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias: Selected Poems (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). His poems and translations have appeared in the following anthologies: Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024); A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing (Indiana University Press, 2023); Selections from Gobbet (Schism Press, 2023); Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos (Snuggly Books, 2021); and These Poems Are Not What They Seem: An Anthology of Twin Peaks Poetry (APEP Publications, 2020). Cunningham holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, where he was the recipient of the 2021 Diann Blakely Poetry Prize, and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a Sparks Prose Prize Fellow. His interests include ecocritical studies, decadent poetics, and literary translation in theory and practice.