William John Watkins has published more than 400 poems in such magazines as Asimov’s, Amazing, Space & Time, Twilight Zone, Talebones and Dreams & Nightmares. His sonnet “Wife of My Youth, Look Back, Look Back” won the 1994 Hellas Award and his poetry has placed in the top ten of the Asimov’s Annual Reader’s Poll more than fifteen times. His hobby has evolved from riding motorcycles off road with his son, Chad, to racing them.
His work was featured in Midnight Mind Number Six.