William Considine

William Considine was born in McKeesport, PA. He graduated with honors from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He was first encouraged to write poetry by Diane Middlebrook and first studied writing poetry with Elizabeth Bishop.

He first studied playwriting in the Playwrights Workshop of the New York Shakespeare Festival, led by Ed Bullins at the Public Theater.

He served as a lecturer in law, an administrative law judge, an arbitrator, and in senior positions in a New York City government agency and in a public service organization for dispute resolution.

He writes poems and plays.

His books include a chapbook of early poems, Strange Coherence, and a volume of his early verse plays, The Furies (both from The Operating System), a poetry chapbook, The Other Myrtle (Finishing Line Press), and a book of poetry, Continent of Fire (Kelsay Books).

His family drama Moral Support ran at Medicine Show Theatre, NYC to critical praise and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2025.

His full-length verse play, The Mysteries, based on a foundational story in Plutarch’s Life of Solon, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2025.