William Heyen

William Heyen is a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany and has won awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, Poetry Magazine, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Nation, and The Ontario Review, The Southern Review, and more than one hundred anthologies. Heyen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Erika: Poems of the Holocaust , The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990, and Pterodactyl Rose: Poems of Ecology (all Time Being Books), Shoah Train (Etruscan Press), Diana, Charles & the Queen, and Crazy Horse in Stillness (both BOA Editions), which won the 1997 National Small Press Book Award for Poetry. He is Professor of English and Poet in Residence at the State University of New York at Brockport.