William Heath

William Heath has taught American literature and creative writing at Kenyon, Transylvania, Vassar, the University of Seville, and Mt. St. Mary's University, where the William Heath Award is given annually to the best student writer. His first novel The Children Bob Moses Led won the Hackney Literary Award; Blacksnake's Path was a History Book Club selection; Devil Dancer is a neo-noir novel set in Lexington, Kentucky; The Walking Man is a book of poems; William Wells and the Struggle for the...See more

William Heath has taught American literature and creative writing at Kenyon, Transylvania, Vassar, the University of Seville, and Mt. St. Mary's University, where the William Heath Award is given annually to the best student writer. His first novel The Children Bob Moses Led won the Hackney Literary Award; Blacksnake's Path was a History Book Club selection; Devil Dancer is a neo-noir novel set in Lexington, Kentucky; The Walking Man is a book of poems; William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest won Spur Awards for history and first nonfiction book; Conversations with Robert Stone is a collection of interviews. He and his wife Roser Caminals-Heath, a Catalan novelist, live in Frederick, Maryland. www.williamheathbooks.com See less