Paul Marion is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and studied in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California at Irvine.
He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Hit Singles and Strong Place. He edited Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac. His poems and essays have appeared in Yankee, Christian Science Monitor and Wisconsin Review.
Among other projects, he managed the development of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative, which was dedicated in 1988. The New England Foundation for the Arts awarded him a four-year Culture in Community Fellowship in 1996.
He is currently the Community Relations Director at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a co-editor of and a contributor to The Bridge Review, on-line journal about the culture of the Greater Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.
