William S BarnesWilliam S. Barnes was raised in Colorado and has lived in New Mexico for 25 years. He is an attorney, botanist, and teacher and currently works for the New Mexico State Land Office in Santa Fe. He spent ten years as a field botanist for the Valles Cadera National Preserve, has taught middle school science and language arts, and now supervises the wildlife biologist, forester, and archaeologist for the Land Office. In 1998 and 1999, while studying for his Masters degree in Biology, Will was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize for poetry at the University of New Mexico. He was selected to perform in the Taos Poetry Festival, the Santa Fe Reading Series, and Artists for Ekphrasis: Sacred Stories of the Southwest in 2014. He received his MFA in poetry from New York University in May, 2015. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Julia. Read More Read Less