Bill Garten has been published in Rattle, Asheville Poetry Review, California State Poetry Quarterly, Portland Review, Wisconsin Review, Antietam Review, Interim, The Chaffey Review, Hawaii Review, Portland Review, The Main Street Rag and Poet Lore. He is a graduate student in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ashland University. His chapbook “Asphalt Heart” was a finalist in The Comstock Review’s 2017 Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest.