William Carpenter

William Carpenter:  grew up in Waterville, Maine, went to Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota, taught at the University of Chicago, then returned to Maine to start the College of the Atlantic in 1972, where he taught until his retirement in 2019. He received the AWP award in poetry for The Hours of Morning and the Samuel French Morse award for Rain. His novels are A Keeper of Sheep, set on Cape Cod in the 1980s, The Wooden Nickel, set on the Maine Coast in contemporary times, and a new Maine–based novel coming out next year.