Scott Poole has been writing and performing poetry in the Pacific Northwest for over 30 years. He has been a painter for 20 years, but began exhibiting in just the last five years. He is best known for his 11 year stint as the "House Poet" on the weekly Live Wire! public radio variety show, taped in Portland, OR and broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. He is the author of ten books of poetry: most recently,Drunk Whales in Blue Cotton Candy(Lunch Hour Press, 2022) In 2019, he finally combined his two art forms by marrying 20 original paintings with 20 of his poems in Vacancy, a limited edition chapbook (Lunchhour Press 2019). Since then he has produced a book of 20 poems and 20 paintings every year. He lives in Vancouver, WA with his wife and family where he works as a software developer.