Paul Warmbier is an essayist and teacher living in Montana. He has spent the last decade and a half in public schools teaching every level from middle school to university-level writing and literature. He is currently faculty at the University of Oregon-Cascades, where he teaches in the Low Residency MFA in Writing program. As an essayist, he focuses on our interactions with and experiences in nature, examining how they affect us and our place in the world.

Paul’s first book, Geometry of Fire, was published by Atmosphere Press in August, 2020. The memoir dives into his journey to understand his growth living with PTSD. It is an attempt at how he can understand his experiences from the early days of the Iraq War as a Marine Infantryman.

Paul’s essays have been published in literary journals such as Punctuate, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Under the Sun, and others, as well as in the anthology Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness, edited by Francoise Besson.