William Ford

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Winner of the 2001 Writing Award from Mid-America Press for 'The Graveyard Picnic' (Fall 2002), William Ford has published poems in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Iowa Review, Pennsylvania Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Tennessee Quarterly. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1994 and teaches at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

William Ford - The Great Yellowstone Fire, 1988
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Winner of the 2001 Writing Award from Mid-America Press for 'The Graveyard Picnic' (Fall 2002), William Ford has published poems in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Iowa Review, Pennsylvania Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Tennessee Quarterly.He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1994 and teaches at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Born in Mt. Vernon, Washington, William Ford is a graduate of Occidental College and of the Writer's Workshop, University of Iowa (MFA, PhD).William's taught both undergraduate and graduate writing courses at the University of Iowa and undergraduate courses in writing and in literature at Southwestern, Lycoming, and Coe colleges and has given presentations at regional and national writing conferences.Currently, he is an adjunct instructor on the distance learning (T.V.) system of Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).He has published one book, THE GRAVEYARD PICNIC (The Mid-America Press, 2002), which won that firm's 2001 Writing Award.His poems, nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, have appeared in FLYWAY, FREE LUNCH, THE IOWA REVIEW, NEW LETTERS, POETRY, SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, and elsewhere and in two anthologies: VOICES ON THE LANDSCAPE (Loess Hills Press) and THE SECOND SET (Indiana University Press).
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