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Bill Garten
Bill Garten is the winner of the Emerson Prize for Poetry and the Margaret Ward Martin Prize for Creative Writing. He has published poetry in hundreds of literary magazines and aca...view moreBill Garten is the winner of the Emerson Prize for Poetry and the Margaret Ward Martin Prize for Creative Writing. He has published poetry in hundreds of literary magazines and academic journals across the United States. Bill is the author of five books of poetry, “Black Snow”, “Red Rain”, “Eventually”, “Symptoms” and now “Box Of Pain, Box Of Fear” all published by Authorhouse. “Black Snow”, “Red Rain”, “Eventually” and “Symptoms” were all previously published by Cork Hill Press.
Bill has also been anthologized in three anthologies: “Wild Sweet Notes, Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950- 1999”; “And Now The Magpie”, a selection of winning entries of the West Virginia Writers’ Annual Awards Competition and “What The Mountains Yield”, a collection from West Virginia Writers.
Bill was born in Huntington, West Virginia and has lived in Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio. He is previously a college professor of English and Business and has taught numerous creative writing workshops. Bill graduated from Marietta College with a degree in English. Outside of teaching college Bill’s career includes the fields of adverstising, marketing, broadcast and finance. He lives in Hudson, Ohio and travels the country in his free time giving poetry readings and conducting creative writing workshops. His hobbies include swimming, biking, snow skiing, hiking, golf and fishing. His email address is redlol2@aol.com.view less