Jim Chapson was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1944, and educated at San Francisco State University. He has lived in Milwaukee since 1976, and teaches creative writing at UWM. His most recent books are Daphnis & Ratboy, Scholia, and Plotinus Blushed (Arlen House, 2013). He has poems in the recent anthology 'Jack London is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai'i' (Tinfish Press, 2013).
He has neither a dog nor a cat; neither tropical fish nor parakeets. He has never held an elective office, and for as far back as he can remember he has not been living in Paris.