Bill King

Bill King

Bill King grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Georgia and teaches creative writing and literature at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia.

He is the 2021 Heartwood Poetry Prize  winner. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kestrel, Appalachian Review, What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (University of Kentucky Press), 100 Word Story, Naugatuck River Review, and many other journals and anthologies. His chapbook, from Finishing Line Press, is The Letting Go (2018).  His first full-length poetry collection, Bloodroot, will be released in October 2023 (Mercer University Press).