Bill Newby was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio where he worked at Shaker Heights High School as an English teacher, Department Head and Chair of Curriculum & Instruction, and later at Cleveland State University as a College of Education Academic Advisor and Lecturer. He and his wife, Barbara Hill-Newby, returned to Cleveland in 2020 after spending six years on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island.
He considers himself an “everyday writer” – using poetry and fiction to record and explore moments of celebration, complaint, concern and comedy.
While in Hilton Head, he offered a Great Poems course through Hilton Head Island Lifelong Learning and produced six annual Kick-Start Poetry Readings at the Hilton Head Branch Library to celebrate National Poetry Month. He was 2018-2019 moderator of the Island Writers' Network and a co-editor of three IWN anthologies.
His work has appeared in Blue Mountain Review, Bluffton Breeze, Gordon Square Review: Neighborhood Voices, Ohio Teachers Write, Palm Beach Poetry Festival’s Fish Tales Contest, Panoplyzine, Sixfold, Spine Line, Whiskey Island, and IWN's Time & Tide, Ebb & Flow, and Reflections anthologies.
He was a 2019 Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee.
He considers himself an “everyday writer” – using poetry and fiction to record and explore moments of celebration, complaint, concern and comedy.
While in Hilton Head, he offered a Great Poems course through Hilton Head Island Lifelong Learning and produced six annual Kick-Start Poetry Readings at the Hilton Head Branch Library to celebrate National Poetry Month. He was 2018-2019 moderator of the Island Writers' Network and a co-editor of three IWN anthologies.
His work has appeared in Blue Mountain Review, Bluffton Breeze, Gordon Square Review: Neighborhood Voices, Ohio Teachers Write, Palm Beach Poetry Festival’s Fish Tales Contest, Panoplyzine, Sixfold, Spine Line, Whiskey Island, and IWN's Time & Tide, Ebb & Flow, and Reflections anthologies.
He was a 2019 Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee.