Paul R. Haenel is a Pittsburgh native who has lived in Northern Virginia since 1981. He graduated from Penn State University in 1975 and subsequently spent four years as a German linguist/voice intercept operator for the US Army Security Agency ((ASA)––later INSCOM––attaining the exalted rank of buck sergeant. His service included sixteen months in West Berlin. He attended George Mason University in the late nineties in the Master of Fine Arts program and studied with Eric Pankey and Carolyn Forché. He has worked at Morgan Stanley since 1979. His poems have appeared over the years in numerous journals, including The Wallace Stevens Review, Antietam Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, 10X3 Plus, and others. The Washington Writers’ Publishing House published his volume of poems, Farewell, Goodbye, Wave Goodbye, in 1994.
