Ethan Paquin is an American poet and a native of New Hampshire.
A member of the I-90 school of poets, Ethan Paquin grew up in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He earned a BA in English/Writing from Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and his MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is founding editor of the online literary journal Slope, which he launched in 1999, and co-founded with Christopher Janke the nonprofit poetry press Slope Editions in 2001. He currently teaches at Plymouth State University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and has previously taught at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York, and in the writing program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
His writing has been published in journals including Colorado Review, Fence, Verse, The Boston Review, Boulevard, New American Writing, Quarterly West, Pleiades, Esquire, Jacket (Australia), and Meanjin (Australia). His literary criticism has appeared in journals including The Boston Review, Verse, Canadian Review of Books and Contemporary Poetry Review.