Paul S. Piper is a native of Chicago who moved to the mountains and rivers and forests of Montana, where he eventually earned degrees in biology and creative writing. In 1992 he, his wife, and son moved to Hawaii where they lived on Oahu for five and-a-half years. He now works as a librarian at Western Washington University in Bellingham. His poems were included in America Zen: A Gathering; this is his fifth book of poetry, following Now and Then (Flying Trout Press), and Winter Apples (Bird Dog Publishing).
