Paul Christiansen is the author of Beneath Saigon’s Chò Nâu (Phương Nam Publishing House), a bilingual collection of essays; the co-editor of A Rainy Night in the City (Hanoi Publishing House), a bilingual anthology of short stories; and co-translator of ‘Light Out’ and Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930–1954 (NIU Southeast Asian Series). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright Fellow, he currently resides in Saigon and works as content director for Saigoneer.