Bill Yarrow

6631 North Trumbull Avenue

Lincolnwood, IL 60712-3737

Phone:

(847) 675-2789

E-mail:

bill.yarrow@gmail.com

Website:

billyarrow.wordpress.com

Author's Bio

I am a Professor of English at Joliet Junior College. I am the author of AGAINST PROMPTS (Lit Fest Press 2018), THE VIG OF LOVE (Glass Lyre Press 2016), BLASPHEMER (Lit Fest Press 2015), POINTED SENTENCES (BlazeVOX 2012) and five chapbooks, We All Saw It Coming (Locofo Chaps 2017), The Lice of Christ (MadHat Press 2014), Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cervena Barva Press 2014), FOURTEEN (Naked Mannekin 2011), and WRENCH (erbacce-press 2009).

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

“After the Shark” nominated for a 1982 Pushcart Prize by Central Park and cited as an Outstanding Poem in Pushcart Prize VIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1984.Academy of American Poets Competition, First Prize, Judge: Galway Kinnell, Swarthmore College, 1973.Academy of American Poets competition, First Prize, Judge: Mark Strand, Swarthmore College, 1971.