Bill McLaughlin worked as a freelance writer for newspapers including the Miami Herald, Newark Star-Ledger, Halifax Herald and the New Jersey Herald. His fiction work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Red Fez, where his novella 'Breakfast and a Cigarette' was published. He is an exhibiting landscape painter and photographer and a recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts grant for his exhibition and book, 'Face to Face: Portraits from the Precipice'. Bill currently works in the classical haiku tradition — compression, direct observation, trusting the reader — while bringing to the form a distinctly American restlessness and humor. He lives in New Berlin, New York, on a weedy homestead with an exceedingly ungrateful feral cat.