Paula Cisewski's second poetry collection, Ghost Fargo, was selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), of the chapbooks How Birds Work and Two Museums, and the co-author, with Mathias Svalina, of Or Else What Asked the Flame. Her poems appear regularly in literary magazines such as South Dakota Review, A Handsome Journal; H_NGM_N; Forklift, OH; failbetter; Everyday Genius; We Are So Happy to Know Something; BOMB; and REVOLUTIONesque.
Paula teaches and is, along with her artist husband Jack Walsh, a cofounder of JoyFace Poetry & Arts. A current co-host with Matt Mauch of the Maeve's Sessions Reading Series, she founded and curated the open mic night at the Artists' Quarter Jazz Club in St. Paul, the Imaginary Press Reading Series, and served as the 2013 host of The Banfill-Locke Reading Series, where she is the 2014 Writer-in-Residence.
A Minnesota State Arts Board Grant and a Jerome Grant recipient, Paula worked in warehouses, was an artist mentor with Minneapolis teens, owned a coffee shop, and waited one million tables while raising her son and earning her BA from St. Catherine's University and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Paula teaches and is, along with her artist husband Jack Walsh, a cofounder of JoyFace Poetry & Arts. A current co-host with Matt Mauch of the Maeve's Sessions Reading Series, she founded and curated the open mic night at the Artists' Quarter Jazz Club in St. Paul, the Imaginary Press Reading Series, and served as the 2013 host of The Banfill-Locke Reading Series, where she is the 2014 Writer-in-Residence.
A Minnesota State Arts Board Grant and a Jerome Grant recipient, Paula worked in warehouses, was an artist mentor with Minneapolis teens, owned a coffee shop, and waited one million tables while raising her son and earning her BA from St. Catherine's University and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
