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Paul Marion founded Loom Press in 1978. He is Executive Director of Outreach at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Since 1980, he has been involved in the ongoing revitalization of the historic city of Lowell. In the 1980s, he planned and implemented cultural programs for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, U.S. Department of the Interior, a federal agency charged with assisting the National Park Service in the development of Lowell National Historical Park. Among other projects, he led or assisted in the development of artist studios in a renovated textile mill, museum exhibitions, performance series, public art, and the Jack Kerouac Commemorative, a sculpture tribute to the noted 20th-century author and lead writer of the Beat movement. Since 1994, he has been a writer, editor, and administrator at UMass Lowell. His publications include several collections of poetry, including the recent What Is the City?, and an edited volume of the early writings of Kerouac, Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac (Viking, 1999).