Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson: poet/interviewer, he founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB and the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Books include Haibun de la Serna (2022), A Time Before Slaughter/Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia (2020) American Prophets (interviews 1994–2012) (2018) and American Sentences (2015, 2021). He is co–editor of Cascadian Zen Volume I: Bioregional Writings on Cascadia Here and Now (2023, Watershed Press), Make it True meets Medusario (2019) (Spanish and English) and others. He is Literary Executor for the late poet Sam Hamill and lives in Rainier Beach, alongside TUX woo’ kwib Creek, in Seattle.