Henry R. Williams was born and raised in the piedmont of North Carolina, being always ever after between the mountains and the sea. His poems have appeared in The Emergency Almanac, Southern Humanities Review, random, Fire, The Brooklyn Review, Offerta Speciale, among others, and his first poetry collection, Season Smooth & Unperplext was published in 2010 by BlazeVox Books. His first novel The Price is Bright is still a work-in-progress. He also serves as executive editor at greenspotblue.com He currently works in Manhattan and resides in Maplewood, NJ with his family.