Paul S. Piper was born and raised in Chicago, and lived for extensive periods in Montana and Hawaii. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, Missoula, where he studied with Richard Hugo, William Kittredge, Richard Ford, and James Crumley among others. He is currently a librarian at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. His writing has appeared in various literary journals including The Bellingham Review, Manoa, Sulfur and CutBank. He has three published books of poetry -- Now and Then (Flying Trout Press), Movement Apparent Song (Mountain Moving Press), and White (Zettel Press) – and one unpublished manuscript, Winter Apples. He has also had the privilege of being included in the books The New Montana Story (Riverbend Press) and America Zen (Bottom Dog Press). In addition he co-edited the book Father Nature (University of Iowa Press), and X-Stories: The Personal Side of Fragile X Syndrome (Flying Trout Press).
