Will Nixon was raised in the Connecticut suburbs. In his twenties and thirties he lived in Hoboken and Manhattan, where he worked in book publishing then became a freelance journalist, finding his calling with environmental stories. On the verge of hitting forty he moved into a Catskills log cabin and turned more seriously to poetry. His books include My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse and Love in the City of Grudges. He then lived in and around Woodstock, where with Michael Perkins he co-authored Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town. Together they started Bushwhack Books which has produced a dozen titles, most recently, Crossing Divides: My Journey to Standing Rock by Vernon Benjamin, the late Hudson Valley historian. Nixon now lives in Kingston, but he's active with Shout Out Saugerties. In 2023 he performed a monologue inspired by his photo, "The Wounded Crow," as part of an arts festival inspired by Linda Montano. He's finishing a poetry book to be released in December 2024, If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties. He also dreams of publishing his novel, Lyndon Baines Takes a Fare to the Palace of Wisdom, the story of an epic cab ride in Gotham in 2063. It's a retelling of the Orpheus myth about rescuing the dearly departed from the underworld, but in this future the Death Portal of New Jersey has replaced Hades.