Paul Genega is the author of seven chapbooks and seven full-length collections of poetry, most recently Outtakes: New and Selected Poems 1975-2023 from Salmon Poetry in December, 2023 (www.salmonpoetry.com). 


In a five decade career, his work has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines and journals, including Southwest Review, Poetry, Kansas Quarterly, Stillwater Review, North American Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Verse Daily and Narrative Northeast, and has been honored with awards such as The Lucille Medwick Award (New York Quarterly), Charles Angoff Award (The Literary Review) and The “Discovery” / The Nation Prize. Nominated six times for a Pushcart Prize, he is also the recipient of an individual fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

He has read his poetry throughout the U.S. and abroad in venues diverse as the Folger Shakespeare Library, Indiana University Art Museum, the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival, A Different Light Bookstore (San Francisco) and the Austin Clarke Library (Dublin), and was a featured reader at poetry festivals sponsored by the Bright Hills Arts Center, Treadwell, New York and the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center, Sussex, New Jersey. 


Perhaps, a portfolio of poems with etchings by Aaron Fink, is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Harvard Museums, among others. His poem The Self-Made Man and the Moon was turned into a robotic theater piece by Barry Brian Werger at the robotics lab at the University of Southern California and toured the US and abroad. As part of ARTS By the People’s Moving Words project, Pharaoh was made into an animation by Omar Mizrah and premiered at the Animex Festival in Tel Aviv. 


Since 2014, Paul has been editor of Three Mile Harbor Press, assuming leadership of the independent poetry publisher after the death of its founding editor Antje Katcher (www.3mileharborpress.com). With Emmy Award winning composer, writer and documentary filmmaker Patricia Lee Stotter, he co-authored the full-length musical play Haven’t We Met?, which was presented in a full production sketch at the Writers’ Theater in New York, and the multi-media piece Paging Doctor Faustus, which was given a workshop presentation at FiveMyles Gallery in Brooklyn, April 2019. 

​He has worked as full-time research assistant to the co-editors of the Jackson Pollock Catalogue Raisonne and as Contributing Editor of The Columbia Encyclopedia. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University in New Jersey where he founded the creative writing program, taught literature and writing, and served as Chair of Humanities.