A teacher entering his seventeenth year of classroom instruction, Paul W. Hankins teaches English 11 and AP English Language and Composition at Silver Creek High School in southern Indiana (near Louisville, KY). Hankins is a poet and a collage artist and a long-time proponent and facilitator of multigenre/multiform projects. He is an active member of many professional organizations and enjoys a robust and purposeful social media presence. Hankins lives in southern Indiana with his hero wife, Kristie, a nurse practitioner. Their two children, Noah and Maddie Hankins, attend Ball State University and The University of Southern Indiana respectively.