Earl Simpson

Samuel Earl Simpson was born in 1943 in the town of Commerce in East Texas. He graduated from Baylor University, served in the Air Force, and received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. After a year employed in a junior high school, he taught English at a community college in Virginia until he retired. He and his wife reared three daughters and live in an old farmhouse with a pleasant view of the Rappahannock River.

Earl Simpson is one of five contributors to a collection of juvenile verse entitled Of Fairies and Witches and Kisses and Wishes by Phoebe Synn. An earlier volume of poetry (Unrolled E's and S's)by Earl Simpson is currently out of print.