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About William Poe

Author and artist William Poe is an author and artist whose work explores identity, belief, trauma, and personal transformation. A former member of the Unification Church, Poe draws deeply from his own life--his experiences with faith, addiction, and the search for self--as he crafts emotionally honest and character-driven fiction. His award-winning novels in the Powell Legacy Series trace a path from self-denial to redemption, confronting the legacies of family, ideology, and love with insight and clarity.

 

In addition to the Powell Legacy novels--Simon Says, Simple Simon, and Simon’s Mansion--Poe is also the author of Endings: Poetry and Prose, a collection of short fiction and poetry, and Myths and Rhymes, a volume of esoteric poems exploring myth, memory, and the symbolic language of transformation. He holds degrees in art and anthropology and worked with the Smithsonian Institution before devoting himself more fully to creative work.

 

His paintings have appeared in juried exhibitions and galleries across the U.S. He lives with his husband, embracing a life shaped by compassion, truth, and artistic freedom.