Craig
Paulenich was born and raised in Western PA;
received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh (1982) and a PhD from
Bowling Green State University (1989). He is author of
Drift of the Hunt, and co-editor
[with Kent Johnson] of
Beneath a
Single Moon: Buddhism and Contemporary American Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia
Review, the South Carolina Review, Kansas Quarterly, Tar River Poetry,
the Hiram Poetry Review, Artful Dodge, and many others, and he has
twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and
the KSU Coordinator for the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in
Creative Writing (NEOMFA).