Paul Killebrew

Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Paul Killebrew earned a BA in English and political science from the University of Georgia and a law degree from New York University. He is the author of the poetry collections To Literally You (2017), Ethical Consciousness (2013), and Flowers (2010). He is also the author of the chapbooks Inspector vs. Evader (2007) and Forget Rita (2003), selected by John Ashbery for the Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook competition.

Killebrew’s work engages political subjects and is at times reminiscent of that of the New York School of poets; a Publishers Weekly review of Flowers stated that Killebrew “explores the possibilities and uses of poetry and the experience of living in language.”

From 2008 to 2012 he worked as an attorney for the Innocence Project New Orleans. He lives in Maryland with his wife and family.