Paul Rabinowitz

Poet, Fiction Writer, Spoken Word Artist

MORRISTOWN, NJ
New Jersey US

Author's Bio

Paul Rabinowitz is an author, screenwriter, photographer, adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and founder of ARTS By The People. His work is often intertextual, and frequently thematically centered upon the process of art-making through varied forms and pathways. He is the author of 5 books including The Clay Urn; Limited Light; truth, love and the lines in between; Grand Street, Revisited and Syncopated Rhythms. Rabinowitz develops original content for film including the feature length called Bungalow.

Rabinowitz’s photography, prose and poetry appear in magazines and journals including The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Arcturus-Chicago Review Of Books, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review, Stone Poetry Quarterly, Talking River Review, and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020, Mud Season Review in 2022, Apricity Press in 2023, Rappahannock Review in 2024 and The Woven Tale Press in 2025. His photo series Limited Light was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Rabinowitz’s poems and fiction are the inspiration for 8 award winning experimental films, including Best Experimental Short at Cannes, Venice Independent Film Festival, Oregon Short Film Festival, Jersey Shore Film Festival, Florence Indie Film Festival and Paris Film Festival. Rabinowitz has produced mixed media performances and poetry films that have appeared on stages and in theaters throughout the world. He was nominated for the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award for outstanding service in the literary arts. He is the founder of The Platform, a monthly literary series in New Jersey, and Platform Review, a journal of voices from The Garden State. Rabinowitz’s videos, photography and poems appeared in his first multimedia solo exhibit called Retrospective With Reading Glasses, at CCM Gallery in 2022.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Finishing Line Press (Finishing Line Press, 2025)
,
The Clay Urn (Main Street Rag, 2020)
Chapbook:
Grand Street, Revisited (Finishing Line Press, 2023)

Poetry

Book:
truth, love and the lines in between (Finishing Line Press, 2023)

Spoken Word

Performances:
Villa Dei Misteri (2022)
,
Little Gem Magnolia (2021)
,
The Gift (2020)
,
Unknown Author (2020)
,
Grand Street, Revisited (2019)
,
In The original Language (2019)
Prizes won: 

Limited Light Photography Series, Best of The NET (2020)
Writer of the following films:
Little Gem Magnolia (2021)
Winner, Best Experimental Film, Oregon Short Film Festival (Oregon)
Honorable Mention, International Poetry Film Festival (Hollywood)
Semi-Finalist, Best Short Festival (Ontario, Canada)
Magnolia Moon (2022)
Winner, Best Experimental Film, Venice Shorts Film Festival (Venice, CA)
Winner, Best Experimental Short, Paris Independent Film Festival (Paris, France)
Nominee, Best Experimental Short, Montreal Independent Film Festival (Montreal)
Villa Dei Misteri (2021)
Winner, Best Experimental Short, RevolutionME International Film Festival (NYC)
Winner, Best Sound Design, RevolutionME International Film Festival (NYC)
Semi Finalist, Best Short Fest (Ontario, Canada)
Best Narrative Short, Shortie Film Festival (NYC)
The Lines In Between (2023)
Winner, Best Experimental, Cannes International Shorts Film Festival (Cannes, France)
Nominee, Best Experimental Short, Berlin International Art Film Festival
Poems In Morning Light With Cat (2023)
Nominee, Best Experimental Short, Berlin International Art Film Festival
Winner, Best Experimental Short, Jersey Shore Film Festival

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Livingston, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Apr 12, 2025