Paul Guest

Paul Guest is an American poet and memoirist.

Paul Guest was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[citation needed] When he was twelve, Guest broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck down.

[2][3] Guest's poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Slate and elsewhere.

They are also published in collections as books.