Paula Bohince
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV
Paula Bohince is the author of four poetry collections: A Violence (Princeton, 2025), Swallows and Waves (Sarabande, 2016), The Children(Sarabande, 2012), and Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (Sarabande, 2008).
Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The TLS, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Liberties, Australian Book Review, Granta, The Telegraph, Raritan, Best American Poetry, and widely elsewhere.
She has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar, a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in both Creative Writing and Translation, the Amy Clampitt House resident, the Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place, an affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist in residence at the Dora Maar House, Hawthornden Castle, MacDowell, Green Box, and Oak Spring.
She has received the "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra's Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and second prize in the UK's National Poetry Competition.
She has taught at New York University, the New School, University College Cork as the John Montague International Poetry Fellow, and elsewhere. She served as the guest editor of Best New Poets 2022(Samovar, 2023).
She lives in Pennsylvania.