The Creative Writing Program and the English Department present Paul Cunningham, the recipient of the 2015 Sparks Prize.
Paul Cunningham founded Radioactive Moat Press in 2009. He is a former assistant editor of Action Books and currently works as an editor for Fanzine. He is the author of a chapbook of poems called GOAL/TENDER MEAT/TENDER (horse less press, 2015) and an e-chapbook, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Pangur Ban Party, 2010). His writing can be found in Bat City Review, LIT, Tarpaulin Sky, Spork, DIAGRAM, and others. His translation of Sara Tuss Efrik’s The Night’s Belly (Nattens Mage) was selected as a finalist in the 2015 Goodmorning Menagerie Chapbook-in-Translation contest. His poem-films have been screened in the MAKE Magazine Lit & Luz Festival, Seattle’s INCA: The Institute for New Connotative Action, and at Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City. He most recently received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.