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. 

Paulenich's second collection of poems, Blood Will Tell, will be published this Fall by BlazeVOX [books].  Poems from this book have recently appeared in The Evansville Review and Folio, and are forthcoming in Web Del Sol.  A third collection, St. Vitus Dance, will be published by Cervena Barva Press in 2010.  Last April, Paulenich was the 2009 Alumni Reader in the Bowling Green State University Visiting Writer's Series.

He is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and the KSU Campus Coordinator for the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (NEOMFA).