Education
Paul then attended the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.
Paul then attended the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.
Mihku Paul currently resides in Portland, Maine. She was the only one of the four children in her family to complete high school, after which she earned a Bachelor in Human Development and Communication from the University of Southern Maine. She has taught creative writing at the University of New England.
Like many other contemporary Wabanaki artists, she is also involved in community education.
Mihku Paul combines her poetry with visual art, creating works in pen and ink, watercolor, gouache, and mixed media. Paul"s first multi-media exhibit was a 2009 installation at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, entitled "Look Twice: The Waponahki in Image & Verse.” Her medicine wheel paintings have been auctioned off for fundraising to support arts in the schools and by the Sierra Club to support local and regional projects.
She is a Maliseet Indian, a member of Kingsclear First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada.
