Paul Hanstedt is an educator, writer, traveler, and father of three. Raised in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, he flew to Africa at the age of 20 to meet a friend and promptly got lost. He’s been getting lost ever since, having visited thirty different countries on four different continents, and living for extensive periods of time in Durham, England, and Hong Kong, where he took his family in 2009 as part of a special Fulbright program looking at general education. He has been a professor of English and creative writing for fifteen years and is the editor of the national literary journal The Roanoke Review. His work has appeared in Puerto Del Sol, Confrontation, Writing on the Edge, the Beloit Fiction Journal, MLA's The Profession, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Brain, Child, for which he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His memoir of his family’s sojourn in Hong Kong was published in 2012: Hong Konged: One Modern American Family's (Mis)adventures in the Gateway to China.
