Paula J. Lambert, is a native of Massachusetts and graduate of Butera School of Art in Boston, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She has been recipient of awards from the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and Greater Columbus Arts Council. She has published five chapbooks of poetry and currently directs Full/Crescent Press, a small press publisher of poetry books and broadsides. She lives in Columbus with her husband Michael Perkins.