William Greenway, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, earned a BA degree from George State University while working as a carpenter. In 1970, he joined the Navy and was stationed in New Orleans where for four years he was an electronics technician in a jet squadron. William also attended graduate school at Tulane University at night, earned his Ph.D. in Modern Literature and Poetry and won an Academy of American Poets Prize.

Greenway has called Ohio home since 1986 when he moved to Ohio to accept a position at Youngstown State University. In the spring of 2009, Youngstown State University honored Professor Greenway for the third time with the Distinguished Professor Award.

He has published over six hundred poems in periodicals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and American Poetry, and his work has been read by Garrison Keillor on “The Writer’s Almanac” segment of “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio and “Nothing’s Been the Same Since John Wayne Died” was read by Edward Asner on the album Grow Old With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be, which was nominated for a Grammy in 1997.

Everywhere at Once, published by the University of Akron Press, is William’s seventh full-length collection of poetry and the second book to be recognized with an Ohioana Book Award. The first book was Ascending Order in 2004 and in 2001 he received Ohioana’s Helen and Laura Krout Poetry Award for the body of his work and his contributions to poetry.

William Greenway from the Ohio Reading Road Trip, Greater Dayton Public Television