| Dawn Paul |
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Dawn Paul is the author of two novels, The Country of Loneliness (Marick Press) and Still River, and is the editor of
Corvid Press, a small independent publisher. Dawn has an MFA from Goddard College and has received fellowships from the
Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Spring Creek Project. She enjoys collaborating with other artists and
has created a text/video with painter Ben Johnson for the YouTube literary journal, Shape of a Box, and has worked with
choreographer Kelley Donovan on dance/poetry pieces. She is also a frequent performer on the Improbable Places Poetry
Tour, produced by poet Colleen Michaels. Dawn is a member of the Salem Writers Group. She has a manuscript of short
fiction, Life Histories, and is currently working on a novel and a collection of poetry.
Dawn is a native New Englander and started her writing career with natural history and outdoors articles for magazines. She is
a backpacker, sea kayaker, skier and naturalist. She teaches writing at Montserrat College of Art, a four-year art school in
Beverly, Massachusetts.
Spring 2012:
Dawn will give a lecture on The New Formalists on May 22, 2012 at 7 PM at the Peabody Institute Library, Peabody, MA,
as part of their History of Poetry Series. Register here.
Check out the Improbable Places Poetry Tour on Facebook for the first stop on the tour for 2012. Hint—bring your skates.
To purchase The Country of Loneliness through Small Press Distribution, click here.
2011 was a good year:
Dawn gave a lecture on 20th century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay as part of the Groundbreaking Poetry Series at the
Peabody Institute Library.
With writers Ethan Gilsdorf and Michelle Hoover, Dawn talked about the thorny issues of Writing About Family at the Salem
Literary Festival (Salem, MA). Find ou more here.
Dawn produced North Shore Poets in the Round, a free-wheeling, non-scripted poetry reading where poets read in response
to the previous writer’s poem, at the 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Click here for more information on the
upcoming 2012 festival.
At the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington, DC, Dawn was part of the Art School Faculty
Caucus.
Best of all, Dawn was on tour (locally, of course) with the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, produced by Colleen Michaels.
Watch the video! That’s Dawn in the swimming pool.
Corvid Press, a small independent publisher. Dawn has an MFA from Goddard College and has received fellowships from the
Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Spring Creek Project. She enjoys collaborating with other artists and
has created a text/video with painter Ben Johnson for the YouTube literary journal, Shape of a Box, and has worked with
choreographer Kelley Donovan on dance/poetry pieces. She is also a frequent performer on the Improbable Places Poetry
Tour, produced by poet Colleen Michaels. Dawn is a member of the Salem Writers Group. She has a manuscript of short
fiction, Life Histories, and is currently working on a novel and a collection of poetry.
Dawn is a native New Englander and started her writing career with natural history and outdoors articles for magazines. She is
a backpacker, sea kayaker, skier and naturalist. She teaches writing at Montserrat College of Art, a four-year art school in
Beverly, Massachusetts.
Spring 2012:
Dawn will give a lecture on The New Formalists on May 22, 2012 at 7 PM at the Peabody Institute Library, Peabody, MA,
as part of their History of Poetry Series. Register here.
Check out the Improbable Places Poetry Tour on Facebook for the first stop on the tour for 2012. Hint—bring your skates.
To purchase The Country of Loneliness through Small Press Distribution, click here.
2011 was a good year:
Dawn gave a lecture on 20th century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay as part of the Groundbreaking Poetry Series at the
Peabody Institute Library.
With writers Ethan Gilsdorf and Michelle Hoover, Dawn talked about the thorny issues of Writing About Family at the Salem
Literary Festival (Salem, MA). Find ou more here.
Dawn produced North Shore Poets in the Round, a free-wheeling, non-scripted poetry reading where poets read in response
to the previous writer’s poem, at the 2011 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Click here for more information on the
upcoming 2012 festival.
At the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington, DC, Dawn was part of the Art School Faculty
Caucus.
Best of all, Dawn was on tour (locally, of course) with the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, produced by Colleen Michaels.
Watch the video! That’s Dawn in the swimming pool.
Recent Publications:
“11 PM @ Star City,” short fiction in
the online journal Apple Valley Review,
edited by Leah Browning.
“Sapelo,” an excerpt from the novel The
Country of Loneliness in Folio, the
literary journal of American University
“Dreams Conspire,” a video
collaboration with artist Ben Johnson,
narrated by Elizabeth Rollins, originally
in Shape of a Box, a video literary
journal produced by Jessie Carty.
“This Late Hour,” short fiction from the
Life Histories collection in The Sun
Magazine, Issue 400.
“11 PM @ Star City,” short fiction in
the online journal Apple Valley Review,
edited by Leah Browning.
“Sapelo,” an excerpt from the novel The
Country of Loneliness in Folio, the
literary journal of American University
“Dreams Conspire,” a video
collaboration with artist Ben Johnson,
narrated by Elizabeth Rollins, originally
in Shape of a Box, a video literary
journal produced by Jessie Carty.
“This Late Hour,” short fiction from the
Life Histories collection in The Sun
Magazine, Issue 400.