Paul J LyonPaul J. Lyon, a poet since age 17, was raised in Southern California, and thereafter lived throughout the West, variously occupied until becoming a criminal defense lawyer in the states of Washington and California. He and his wife, Robirda, also an ttorney, met in high school and later raised five daughters in an old house in the San Joaquin Valley. They spend part of the year at their other residence in Puget Sound.