Bradley Ormond Paul (born 1972, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet and screenwriter.

He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Smartish Pace, Fence, Pleiades, Iowa Review, and many other journals. He has written for AMC's Lodge 49, TNT's Animal Kingdom, AMC's Better Call Saul and CBS's Hawaii Five-0.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the artist and writer Karri Paul.[1]

Awards

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Works

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  • "My Quietness Has A Man In It"; "Two Front Teeth"; "On The Sleeve"; "It's Weird That So Many Animals Including Us Have Lungs"; "A Monkey Could Write This Poem"; "Immediately Upon Pruning a Favorite Tree", Action, Yes, Summer 2010.
  • "Seventh of Twelve"; "Homage to Edvard Kocbek"; "Why I Left Nepal"; "Noah Remembers the Coast of Senegal"; "Description of the Salt Cellar", Boston Review, Summer 2000
  • "Anybody Can Write a Poem", poets.org
  • The Obvious New Issues/Western Michigan University, 2004, ISBN 978-1-930974-47-0
  • The Animals All Are Gathering University of Pittsburgh Press, October 28, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8229-6121-5

Filmography

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Year Title Notes
2004 The Apothecary Director and writer
2006 Two Front Teeth Line producer
2008 The Animals All Are Gathering Director
2009 Donkeyface Director and writer
2013 Hawaii Five-0 Writer, episode "Ua Nalohia"
2015 Better Call Saul Writer, episode "Alpine Shepherd Boy"
2018-2019 Animal Kingdom Writer, 4 episodes; Co-executive producer, 13 episodes; Supervising producer, 13 episodes
Lodge 49 Writer, 2 episodes; Co-executive producer, 10 episodes; Co-producer, 10 episodes

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