Bill Ratner

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Los Angeles
US
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Author's Bio

Bill Ratner is a Poets & Writers Readings and Workshops Grant recipient, 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slam, 2-time winner of Best of The Hollywood Fringe Extension Award for Solo Performance. His poetry and essays are published in Best Small Fictions 2021–Sonder Press, chapbook: To Decorate a Casket–Finishing Line Press, full-length collection: Fear of Fish–Alien Buddha Press, Chiron Review, Baltimore Review, FeminineCollective.com, Rattle Magazine’s Rattlecast, Moon Tide Press’ Sh!t Men Say to Me, Missouri Review Audio, and other journals. Bill’s readings are featured on National Public Radio’s Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers. He is a certified volunteer grief counsellor and earns his living as a voice actor (“Donnell Udina” in Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3, “Flint” in G.I. Joe, etc.) He is the author of Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth About Media’s Effect on Children from Familius Books, and he teaches poetry and storytelling for the Los Angeles School District and voiceover for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. 

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Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media's Effect on Children and What to do About It (Familius, 2014)

Poetry

Anthologies:
Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press, 2021)
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Sh!t Men Say to Me: A Poetry Anthology in Response to Toxic Masculinity (Moon Tide Press, 2021)
Book:
Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press, 2021)
Chapbook:
To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press, 2021)
Journals: , , ,
KYSO Flash
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Liquid Imagination
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Loch Raven Review
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MacQueen’s Quinterly
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Nixes Mate Review
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Poems-For-All
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Shark Reef
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Stickman Review
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Uppagus

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
James Wright - A Life in Poetry by Jonathan Blunk

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, Spanish
Born in: 
Des Moines, IA
Iowa
Raised in: 
Minneapolis , MN
Minnesota
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Last update: Jul 05, 2021