Bill Newby has served as a teacher and administrator at Shaker Heights High School and an academic advisor and lecturer at Cleveland State University.
Though he writes an occasional story, he mostly uses poetry to record and explore moments of celebration, complaint, concern, and comedy. He has published three poetry collections: Sea Chests or a Carry-On (2018), Passing Through (2020), and Casting (2022).
His work has appeared in Whiskey Island, Ohio Teachers Write, The Breeze, Time & Tide, Sixfold, Blue Mountain Review, Local Life, Panoplyzine, The Blue Windmill, Penumbra, and other places. He was a 2018 Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee, one of Carolina Poets online poets, and recently featured on Ohio Poetry Association’s Poetry Spotlight podcast.
Reviewing Passing Through, Phil Terman, former director of the Chautauqua Writers Festival, wrote that Bill’s poetry “delights, surprises, teaches, and sings poems with knowledge and wisdom.”