Etruscan Advisory Board member, William Heyen, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940, is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at SUNY Brockport. He has been awarded Fulbright, NEA, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Guggenheim, and other fellowships and prizes.  Etruscan’s Shoah Train (2003)  was chosen as one of five finalists in poetry for the 2004 National Book Awards.  Etruscan also published his September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (2002), The Confessions of Doc Williams & Other Poems (2006), and A Poetics of Hiroshima (2008). 

His work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Nation, The Ontario Review, and in over one hundred anthologies. Heyen is the author of: Erika: Poems of the Holocaust; The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 (both Time-Being Books, 1991, 1994); Diana, Charles, & the Queen; Crazy Horse in Stillness (both from BOA Editions, Ltd, 1998, 1996), the latter of which won the 1997 National Small Press Book Award for Poetry.  He is a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany.