Following nearly two decades as a glazier in the Pacific Northwest, William Erickson’s somewhat non-traditional path into poetry is marked by a fascination with the minute and the everyday, allowing the most seemingly inconsequential things to speak whole universes through his poems. His sensitive observations of both self and space lead through unexpected turns and into places alternately surreal and familiar. Throughout his work, we are urgently reminded that as much as we occupy our spaces we are also shaped by them. William’s work has appeared in LandEscapes Journal, The Phoenix, and Sun Magazine. He is a Tupelo Press 30/30 Project alumni and his debut chapbook will be available in October through Finishing Line Press.