Paul Decelles teaches biology and genetics at Johnson Community College where he is associate professor of biology and his poetry has been published in Kansas Quarterly and Cottonwood Review. Aside from biology and poetry, he is interested in gender, especially transgender issues. Also, he has been active in fighting attempts by the state to insinuate religious doctrine into the Kansas Science Standards. He lives with his wife in Lawrence Kansas.

He may be contacted at pdecell@sunflower.com or through his science and poetry blog currently at theforcethat.blogspot.com.