William Poe

WILLIAM POE is an author and visual artist. Poe draws deeply from his own experiences with faith, love, and art to create character-driven fiction that moves freely between memory and invention.

In addition to the Simon Powell Novels—Simon Says, Simple Simon, Simon’s Mansion, and Simon Afterward—Poe is the author of Endings: Poetry and Prose, a collection of short fiction and poetry, and Myths and Rhymes, a volume of esoteric poems drawing on myth, memory, and symbolism.

He holds degrees in art and anthropology and worked for the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution, before continuing a career in information management with other federal agencies and private-sector organizations.

His paintings have appeared in juried exhibitions and galleries across the United States.