William Woolfitt is author of the poetry collection Beauty Strip and the fiction chapbook The Boy with Fire in His Mouth. His poems and stories have appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, Michgan Quarterly Review, Epoch, Blackbird, Image, and other journals. He is an assistant professor of English at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and the recipient of the Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.