Bill Glose was born into an air force family and spent his childhood on military bases overseas. He served in the Gulf War as an infantry combat platoon leader, and in his five years as a paratrooper he experienced approximately sixty jumps and only one tree landing. Glose is the author of the poetry collection The Human Touch, and his story “Letting Go” received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Award. He was named the Daily Press Poet Laureate in 2011.
Photograph by Dawn Sullivan-West.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Thomas Nelson Community College, a readers' narrative, in Winter 2021
- Four Poems, poetry, in Spring 2013