About
Paul Hlava Ceballos writes against empire and toward care. He is the author of banana [ ], which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. banana [ ] was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Washington State Book Award.
His collaborative text and visual art chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker, Christina Sharpe, and Torkwase Dyson.
He has fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. He currently is the poetry editor of the Seattle Met and practices echocardiography.
Author photo by Tasha Nicole Uria.