Bill McGlothing
Bill McGlothing painted houses, laid adobe bricks, and drove a beer truck before putting his degrees from Luther College and the University of Oregon to use when he started his teaching career on the Alamo Navajo Reservation in 1976. He taught at Zuni, Jemez, and Laguna Pueblos and several Apache Reservations in New Mexico and Arizona, including Jicarilla, Mescalero, and White Mountain. Other teaching gigs took him to both maximum and minimum security prisons in Texas, and to community colleges...See more
Bill McGlothing painted houses, laid adobe bricks, and drove a beer truck before putting his degrees from Luther College and the University of Oregon to use when he started his teaching career on the Alamo Navajo Reservation in 1976. He taught at Zuni, Jemez, and Laguna Pueblos and several Apache Reservations in New Mexico and Arizona, including Jicarilla, Mescalero, and White Mountain. Other teaching gigs took him to both maximum and minimum security prisons in Texas, and to community colleges in New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas. For thirty-nine years, he taught freshman English, literature, and creative writing. He's been writing poetry even longer, with publications in Blue Mesa Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southwest: A Contemporary Anthology, and elsewhere. McGlothing grew up in Gurnee, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and now lives in southwest Kansas. See less
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