William Lewis Winston lives in Oakland, California, where he taught English and history for four decades, also publishing student writing in school literary journals and newspapers. His poems appear in Bearing Witness (Zephyr Press 2002), Margie, Ink Pot, Comstock Review, Poet Lore, Essential (Underground Writers Association 2022), Close Up (Orchard Lea Press 2022), What Is All This Sweet Work? (Vita Brevis Press Anthology IV 2022), Sunspot Literary Journal, and Consequence; and he received an International Merit Award from Atlanta Review. His short story “The Sound of Snow Not Falling” was featured in the Philadelphia InterAct Theatre’s 2005-06 Writing Aloud series (Adrift), but remained unpublished until its appearance in Litro.