Born in Virginia, Bill Cushing grew up in New York and has lived in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, Maryland, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico before moving to California. He earned an MFA in writing from Goddard College in Vermont and now teaches at East Los Angeles and Mt. San Antonio colleges. Bill has published in Another Chicago Magazine, Brownstone Review, Mayo Review, Metaphor, Newtown Literary Journal, and West Trade Review. He had poems in two recently-released anthologies, Getting Old and the award-winning Stories of Music. His current project—combining poetry with music, has a Facebook page named “Notes and Letters.”