Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham co-manages Action Books. He is the author of Sociocide at the 24/7 (New Michigan Press, 2025), Fall Garment (Schism Press, 2022), and The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism Press, 2020). He is a collaborator in Katrine Øgaard Jensen’s Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025). He is the translator of Helena Österlund’s Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019). His writing has appeared in DIAGRAM, Poem-A-Day, Harvard Review, Denver Quarterly, Bat City Review, Quarterly West, and many others. His poems, essays, and translations have been anthologized in Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024); A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing (Indiana University Press, 2023); Selections from Gobbet (Schism Press, 2023); and Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos (Snuggly Books, 2021). Cunningham’s poem-films have screened in museums and festivals in Mexico, India, Denmark, and Czechia. He manages the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.