William Heyen is a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany and has won awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, Poetry Magazine, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His books include A POETICS OF HIROSHIMA (Etruscan Press, 2008), TO WILLIAM MERWIN: A POEM (Mammoth Books, 2007), TITANIC & ICEBERG: EARLY ESSAYS & REVIEWS (Mammoth Books, 2006), and THE CONFESSIONS OF DOC WILLIAMS & OTHER POEMS (Etruscan Press, 2006).
