Jace Paul was born in Willimantic, Connecticut and began writing at the age of fourteen. Two of his earliest works, “The Raspberry,” and “The Serpent,” were awarded first prize in Martín Espada‘s Windham Area Poetry Project.

Paul studied psychology at The University of Connecticut, where they were a co-founder of the UCONN Poetry Society. Paul continued their academic training at Harvard University, where he studied moral leadership with labor activist Marshall Ganz, feminist theology with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, and the history and philosophy of science with Jimena Canales, author of the best-selling The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time.

Paul’s thematic focal points include natural aesthetics, environmental justice, humanistic ethics, and philosophical misanthropy. His poems have appeared in The Harvard Wick, The Mighty Pen, and on Allpoetry.com. Paul is also the author of several collections of poetry, including King’s Road to Pleasant Street (And Other Poems to Nowhere), Eggshells & Entropy, and most recently Dark Matter at the Edge of a Wild Blue Sky. In addition to verse, Paul writes exposition and opinion pieces for The Huffington Post and Medium.com.

Paul is an avid hiker who, in 2018, summitted all of New England’s tallest peaks: Mount Greylock in Massachusetts, Bear Mountain in Connecticut, Mount Mansfield in Vermont, Mount Washington in New Hampshire, Jerimoth Hill in Rhode Island, and the formidable Mount Katahdin in Maine. He has contributed to conservation efforts and responsible wilderness management through The Connecticut Forest and Park Association, The Sierra Club, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.