William Brewer was born and raised in West Virginia. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, and A Public Space. He is the recipient of a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the 2015-16 Joseph F. McCrindle Online Editorial Fellowship from Poets & Writers, and a James Merrill Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. He is currently Associate Editor of Parnassus: Poetry and Review.