Paul Franz has published poems and stories in the New York Review of Books, Hobart, Berfrois, Prelude, and AGNI, among others. His essays and criticism appear in journals including The Atlantic, London Review of Books, TLS, The Nation, TANK, The Hedgehog Review, RealClearBooks, and on his Substack newsletter, ashesandsparks.substack.com, which also features fiction and poems. He is the editor of the journal Literary Imagination, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and, with Matthew Gasda, of Serpent Club: New Writing (new issue out April 16).