William Walsh is the author of six books, most recently his second collection of poems, Lost in the White Ruins (Aldrich Press, 2014). His novel “The Pig Rider” was a recent finalist in the Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner Writing Competition, and his work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, and Rattle, among others. Walsh is completing his PhD in creative writing at Georgia State University and teaches in the MFA program at Reinhardt University.