
Bill Petz was born in Spokane and has lived in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Missouri before finally settling for the last 30 years in the mountains of western North Carolina. He has had careers as a minister, a student affairs administrator in higher education, a public health worker with HIV patients, and a criminal justice alternative sentencing consultant for men with mental health and substance abuse histories. After all this mobility he is semi-retired and now devotes more attention to his writing. His work life has always including writing, but now he is free to write for his own objectives. His poetry appears in Artists & Writers Quarterly.
Bill Petz's work appears in the TIME issue of Status Hat (December, 2011).