Bill Lavender

Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. He is the author of MY ID (BlazeVOX books, 2019), Q (Trembling Pillow Press, 2013), and WHILE SLEEPING (Chax Press, 2004). For 15 years he worked at the University of New Orleans, as director of the Low Residency MFA program and later as Editor-in-Chief of UNO Press. He founded his own press, Lavender Ink, in 1995, and added the Diálogos imprint, devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in...See more

Bill Lavender is a poet, novelist, musician, carpenter and publisher living in New Orleans. He is the author of MY ID (BlazeVOX books, 2019), Q (Trembling Pillow Press, 2013), and WHILE SLEEPING (Chax Press, 2004). For 15 years he worked at the University of New Orleans, as director of the Low Residency MFA program and later as Editor-in-Chief of UNO Press. He founded his own press, Lavender Ink, in 1995, and added the Diálogos imprint, devoted to cross-cultural literatures (mostly in translation), in 2011. He is the co-founder, with Megan Burns of Trembling Pillow Press, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. See less