William Wright's first full collection of poems, Dark Orchard, was published in 2006 by Texas Review Press and awarded the Breakthrough Poetry Prize. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in North American Review, Texas Review, Cimarron Review, Borderlands, Phoebe, Poet Lore, storySouth, and others. He is co-editor of the multi-volume Southern Poetry Anthology, the South Carolina edition to be released soon. He is founder and editor of the forthcoming publication, Town Creek Poetry, and is a Ph.D. creative writing student and teaching fellow at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers.