Randall Dills is a former academic and day laborer. He lives in a small cottage on a wooded farm on Fidalgo Island in the Pacific Northwest on land belonging to the Coast Salish People and the Swinomish Tribal Community. He lived and taught in the American Midwest and South before returning to the place of his birth near the Salish Sea in rural northwest Washington State. His academic work appeared in several publications. His poetry has appeared in Terrain, The Madrona Project, CIRQUE, The Eastern Iowa Review and fiction in The WRITOracle. He was featured at the Museum of Northwest Art's 2024 Roots Symposium and Canopy Art’s 2025 Blanchard Mountain Rendezvous. He is a board member of the Robert Sund Poet's House Trust, and a dues-paying supporter of the San Miguel chapter of PEN International.
HIs first collection, The Universe at the Point of Contraction, from FutureCycle Press, was published in February 2023.