William V. Ray is a retired English teacher who has also been a textbook editor, freelance writer, and café owner. His published work includes textbooks as well as poetry and poetic prose. His work appears in Poetry East, California Quarterly, Vita Brevis Press, The Write Launch, Subprimal Poetry Art, Dog Throat Journal, Pudding, The Opiate, The Ekphrastic Review, The Art Bin, Painters & Poets, Mass Poetry, Poetry Pacific, and elsewhere. His poetic essay, On the Authority of the Moon, is available at Amazon. He is the editor of the online journal The Courtship of Winds. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.