Paula J. Lambert

Paula J. Lambert is an Ohio-based poet. Her full-length poetry collections include As If This Did Not Happen Every Day (Sheila-Na-Gig 2024), The Ghost of Every Feathered Thing (FutureCycle 2022); How to See the World, a finalist in the 2021 Ohioana Book Awards (Bottom Dog 2020); and The Sudden Seduction of Gravity (Full/Crescent 2012). She has authored several chapbooks, including Uncertainty (The Only Hope We Have), (Bottlecap Features 2023). Awarded the 2021 PEN America - L'Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship, her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is the 2023 winner of the Slippery Elm Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club's Amy Lowell Prize, was awarded a 2021 Editor's Choice Award from Sheila-Na-Gig Online, and was the 2019 winner of the HeartWood Broadside Series. Lambert owns Full/Crescent Press, a small publisher of poetry books and broadsides, through which she has founded and supported numerous public readings and festivals that support the intersection of poetry and science, including the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival now hosted by the Ohio Poetry Association. She lives in Columbus with her husband, Dr. Michael Perkins, a philosopher and technologist. 

Lambert has been actively involved in all stages of writing, publishing, performing, and translating poetry. She enjoys finding interesting and unusual ways of publishing and performing work and has been involved in everything from letter press printing to slam poetry competitions. She is especially adept at creating hand-stitched specialty chapbooks, which she has published on her own and through the press.

Lambert is available for features, workshops, and speaking events.