William Heyen

William Heyen: William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, NY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature in Germany, he has won NEA, Guggenheim, the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other awards. His graduate degrees are from Ohio University, and SUNY recently awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He edited September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press). His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies. His Crazy Horse in...See more

William Heyen: William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, NY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature in Germany, he has won NEA, Guggenheim, the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other awards. His graduate degrees are from Ohio University, and SUNY recently awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He edited September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press). His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies. His Crazy Horse in Stillness won the Small Press Book Award, Shoah Train was a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Poetics of Hiroshima was a selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. He is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at the College Brockport. See less