Bill Garvey - Poet

Bill Garvey is a Canadian-American poet and fiction writer. He is the author of Leaning in the Same Direction (DarkWinter Press, 2026), The Basement on Biella (DarkWinter Press, 2023), and The Burden of Angels (Finishing Line Press, 2007). His poetry has appeared in Rattle , The New Quarterly , Cimarron Review , Queen's Quarterly , One Art , Thimble , San Antonio Review , and numerous other literary journals. Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bill has also lived in New Hampshire and Illinois. He spent forty years working in the insurance and technology industries, a career that took him across the United States and eventually to Canada. Bill received an MFA in Poetry from New England College. After a year in Illinois, he and his wife moved to Canada in 2010, where he founded a consulting business. They now divide their time between Toronto and the coast of Nova Scotia. In Halifax, his wife's hometown, Bill became a Canadian citizen in 2019 while retaining his Am...