B. 1974
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Paul Guest (he/him) is the author of the poetry collection Because Everything is Terrible (Diode Editions, 2018) and the memoir One More Theory About Happiness (Ecco, 2010). His poems have been published in Best American Poetry, the Paris Review, the Georgia Review, the American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award, and he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.