Paul Sullivan
Paul Sullivan is a writer from Massachusetts. They are an MFA candidate and Poe/Faulkner Fellow at the University of Virginia. A graduate of Harvard University, they worked as an editor at The Provincetown Independent and were a recipient of a 2024-2025 Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship.
Select Works
FICTION ESSAYSFetal Position (2025)
In the Fall 2025 Issue of The Brooklyn Review
Shitmaker (2026)
In the Winter 2026 Issue of The Nashville Review
“The Compromised Power of Being Young and Beautiful” (2024)
On the attention-seeking narrator of Thomas Grattan’s “In Tongues
“Paintings Tell a Kaleidoscopic Civil War Story” (2024)
On the haunting panels of William Ciccarriello’s “Lower 48”
“Dina Martina Is In A Good Place” (2024)
On the drag queen’s delightful absurdity
“Judith Butler Would Like Us to Love Without Fear” (2024)
On the mixed success of the philosopher’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
“The Shameless Plan for a New Fire Island” (2024)
On the worst thing you’ve ever heard of
“‘The Curse’ Tells Unnerving Truths”(2024)
On a damn good television show and “woke gentrification”
“Ta-Ta For Now to All That” (2022)
On being young in Provincetown
“Cookie Mueller’s Carefree Misadventures, Carefully Told” (2022)
On a peerless (and forgotten) writer’s wild way of living
“Group Therapy With Varla Jean Merman” (2022)
On an aging beauty
“Peter Hujar Reveals the Truth Behind the Joke” (2022)
On what Susan Sontag got wrong about camp
THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT THE HARVARD CRIMSON“This Pride Month Postmates Wants You to Eat With Shame” (2022)
On the body fascist horrors of “the bottom-friendly menu”
“The Radical Empathy of Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’” (2020)
On the pop star’s best album
“Purple Babies: Notes to Keith Haring” (2020)
On commercial art and the AIDS epidemic
“The Generic Glory of Gay Instagram” (2020)
On the bland perfection of the Instagays
CONTACT ME
CONTACT ME
If you would like to commission writing, criticism, or freelance editing from Paul, you can reach them at paulgeorgesullivan@gmail.com
