He is the author of three books of poetry, Drift of the Hunt (Nobodaddies Press, 2006), Blood Will Tell (BlazeVOX [books], 2009), and St. Vitus Dance (Cervena Barva Press, 2012), and editor, (with Kent Johnson) of Beneath A Single Moon: Buddhism and Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Press, 1991), a landmark anthology of poems and essays from forty-five American Buddhist poets. He has been three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, by Nobodaddies (1994),Seems (2002), and the Kelsey Review (2009). His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, the South Carolina Review, Kansas Quarterly, the Southern Poetry Review, and many others. Professor Paulenich holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University.