William Winslow lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He earned his BA in English from the Virginia Military Institute, served a tour in Vietnam-for which he received a Bronze Star-and later received an MS in Public Administration from the University of Missouri. He is a member of the Poetry Society of South Carolina and has had several competitively selected poems appear in that organization's annual yearbook. He is a longtime member of the Academy of American Poets and is a member of the Haiku Society of America.