William Greenway holds a PhD in Modern Literature and Poetry from Tulane University. He has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize, an Ohioana Poetry Award, an Editors’ Prize from Missouri Review, an Open Voice Poetry Award from The National Writer’s Voice Project, and an Ohio Arts Council Grant.  He was Georgia Author of the Year for 1994. Greenway has published over 500 poems in such magazines as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review. He has also published several poetry collections, including Pressure Under Grace (Breitenbush Books, 1982), Simmer Dim (University of Akron Press,1999), and Ascending Order (University of Akron Press, 2003). Greenway writes songs and performs in the folk group Brady’s Leap, and he is Distinguished Professor of modern poetry and poetry writing at Youngstown State University.