Paul Fisher was born and grew up in Seattle, earned a master’s degree in Art & Education from Washington University in St. Louis, an MFA in poetry from New England College, and has studied writing in a variety of academic and workshop settings, including the University of Washington, Centrum at Port Townsend, and the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Poetry from the Oregon Arts Commission, and was Featured Poet in the Spring 2008 issue of the Centrifugal Eye. Teacher and visual artist as well as poet, he believes that poetry has as much in common with music and painting as it has with prose. Paul lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife, Linda, a health care executive. His poems have appeared in dozens of periodicals, several anthologies, been honored with awards from literary journals such as Defined Providence, Explorations, and Nimrod, and won the Dirty Napkin Cover Prize. His first book, Rumors of Shore, is the winner of the 2009 Blue Light Book Award, and published by Blue Light Press.