Paul J Willis

Paul J. Willis is a professor of English at Westmont College and a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of TO BUILD A TRAIL: ESSAYS ON CURIOSITY, LOVE & WONDER (WordFarm, 2018), and his Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild was a Foreword INDIES gold winner (best essay collection) from an independent press. He has also published five volumes of poetry, most recently Getting to Gardisky Lake and Deer at Twilight: Poems from the...See more

Paul J. Willis is a professor of English at Westmont College and a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of TO BUILD A TRAIL: ESSAYS ON CURIOSITY, LOVE & WONDER (WordFarm, 2018), and his Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild was a Foreword INDIES gold winner (best essay collection) from an independent press. He has also published five volumes of poetry, most recently Getting to Gardisky Lake and Deer at Twilight: Poems from the North Cascades . Also set in the Cascades--or a mythic version of them--is his eco-fantasy novel, THE ALPINE TALES. See less