William Wright is a teaching fellow and PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. He is the author of the poetry collection Dark Orchard, published in 2005 by Texas Review Press. Founding editor of Town Creek Poetry and coeditor of the multi-volume Southern Poetry Anthology, Wright has recently published poems in Colorado Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Smartish Pace. (updated 4/2009)