William S. Tribell was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA as William Stephen Tribell. He is a interdisciplinary artist. A Pulitzer Prize nominated poet, who hates the term poet now.  He is also known for his work in film incuding Dwellers (2021), The Evening Hour (2020), and his musical work with the EMMY winning The Dead Unknown (2015). An actor, writer, and director, his short film Girl in the Red Dress (2021) will debut at the 2024 Cannes Short Film Festival. While living in Budapest Hungary, his short film Budapest (2014) garnered worldwide attention, becoming an early catalyst in the still growing unrest against the curbed civil liberties, and limitations applied to artistic expression legislated by the Hungarian government. In Journalism, Tribell has had thousands of articles and photographs published, receiving a Lighthouse Media Award in 2015. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, with nominations for Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 2017 and the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2018 and 2019. His collection of poetry, "A Duke's Mixture and a Hill of Beans" received sponsorship for submission to the Pulitzer Prize Nomination in Poetry for 2020 and was accepted. As a poet, he was featured in the film Poetry is Dead! (2015). William S. Tribell thinks sushi is great, and his favorite color is green. He currently living in Nashville.