Bill Newby
Bill Newby was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio where he worked at Shaker Heights High School as an English teacher, Department Head and Chair of Curriculum & Instruction, and later at Cleveland State University as a College of Education Academic Advisor and Lecturer. He and his wife, Barbara Hill-Newby, currently reside on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island.
He considers himself an "everyday writer" – using poetry and fiction to record and explore moments of celebration, complaint, concern and comedy.
He offers a Great Poems course/conversation through Hilton Head LifeLong Learning and produces an annual Kick-Start Poetry Reading to celebrate National Poetry Month. He is the Island Writers' Network's 2018-2019 Moderator.
His work has appeared in Bluffton Breeze, Ohio Teachers Write, Palm Beach Poetry Festival's Fish Tales Contest, Panoplyzine, Sixfold, Whiskey Island, and the Island Writers' Network's Time & Tide and Ebb & Flow anthologies.