William Poe

William Poe is a writer and visual artist.

Raised outside Little Rock, Arkansas, Poe’s fiction is informed by his decade in the Unification Church and his past struggles with drug addiction.

The Powell Legacy Series follows Simon Powell, a gay man whose search for love carries him from all-consuming faith to Hollywood excess and international crime. When he returns to his family home to pursue his art, tragedy exposes long-buried secrets and threatens the fragile peace he hoped he had found.

Poe earned degrees in art and anthropology and worked in federal service, including at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

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