Paul Acciavatti received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Hawaiʻi in 2001 and spent the first part of his career as a microwave systems engineer, designing and installing terrestrial and satellite communications systems throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He settled in Vermont in 2014 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing and Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2019. He teaches composition and research writing at Community College of Vermont, and has previously taught at Norwich University. Since 2023, he has been the sexton of Vermont Forest Cemetery.
Acciavatti has written and edited textbooks for Salem Press and Bloomsbury Press, co-wrote and edited the non-fiction Recovery Dharma, and his creative writing has appeared in Isele, Wanderlust Journal, Utopian Eye, the Montpelier Bridge, and elsewhere. His poetry will be featured in the forthcoming Subversive Futures anthology.
He lives in Montpelier, Vermont with his wife Michelle, several thousand books, and an odd assortment of bicycles.
