New Bio

Paul Vega was born in Kansas on the morning of his father’s first day as the editor of the small town newspaper, The Junction City Daily Union, thus beginning a long and complicated relationship with both the written word and his father. He was born in that sweltering summer of 1985, 4 days after the U.S. decommissioned Route 66, 4 months before the Kansas City Royals won their first and only World Series, and right smack in the middle of Bruce Springsteen’s epic “Born in the USA” tour.

He came of age in southeastern Arizona, in the shadow of Cochise and Coronado and Kit Carson, the OK Corral, and in the cauldron of America’s longest and most violent border war. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Washington, a part-time tutor, writing instructor and fisherman, and an advocate for the short story form, Kansas State University athletics, short, blonde girls, and all things Joe Strummer.