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William Varner
William Varner's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Smartish Pace, The Cincinnati Review, Cimmaron Review, Green Mountains Review, Folio, Harpur Palate, The Greensboro Review, MiPOesias, and elsewhere.  As senior editor for a literacy education publisher, he has acquired, developed, and edited hundreds of books and videos, winning awards from the National Council of Teachers of English, The American Historical Association, The Association of Educational Publishers, and others.  He also has to turn down a lot of good projects, and worries that his manuscript Excerpts From the Log of Spiritual Misdemeanors suffers from his bad karma.  He lives in South Berwick, ME.