Founder of SPLAB and the Cascadia Poetry Festival, Paul E. Nelson was a professional broadcaster from 1980 to 2006, produced over 600 interviews and has given presentations or readings in Brussels, London, China, Nanaimo and elsewhere. Published books include: American Prophets (Interviews, Seattle Poetics LAB, 2018) American Sentences (Apprentice House, 2015),  A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House, Nov. 2009, shortlisted for the Stranger Genius Award in 2010), Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies, published in English and Portuguese by Lumme Editions of Brazil in 2013 and a 2015 interview with José Kozer published as Tiovivo Tres Amigos. Co-editor of four anthologies: Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia, Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (Seattle Poetics LAB, 2019), Make it True meets Medusario (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2019) and 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards. He writes an American Sentence every day, lives in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood in the Cedar River watershed in the Cascadia bioregion.