Paul Nelson, for years Professor/Director of Creative Writing for Ohio University, is the author of numerous books, including Days Off, an AWP Winner, and The Hard Shapes Of Paradise, a University of Alabama Press Series Selection. Sea Level appeared in 2008 with Main Street Publishing, and a chapbook, I Brought Her Juicy, Thin-Skinned Lemons, with Finishing Line Press in 2012. He edits Kaimana, Hawaii's state funded literary magazine. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he writes from Mokule'ia on the North Shore of O'ahu.