Philip Kevin Paul is a Canadian poet.
His debut collection Taking the Names Down from the Hill won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2004,"Lt.-Gov. award honours 'grand lady' of B.C. literature". Victoria Times-Colonist, May 2, 2004. and his second collection Little Hunger was a shortlisted nominee for the 2009 ReLit Award for poetry and the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2009 Governor General's Awards."Governor General's Literary Awards nominees". Telegraph-Journal, October 15, 2009.
A former competitive boxer,"About Philip Kevin Paul". Victoria Times-Colonist, December 31, 2007. he is a member of the Saanich First Nation on Vancouver Island. He is a graduate of the University of Victoria. In 2019, Paul co-taught a writing course at the University of Victoria called A Sense of Place.
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