Dr. Bill Thierfelder is an artist, writer, and photographer who currently lives in Bayport, NY (Long Island). Before devoting his full time to art and writing, Dr. Bill was a Professor of English and Humanities at Dowling College from 1985 to 2010. As an artist, Thierfelder has focused on drawing, using various media, especially crayon, pencil, and colored pens and markers, as well as digital photography. His work has been shown in juried shows at several galleries on Long Island as well as Monkdogz Urban Art, Rogue Space and Barebrush in New York City. Inviting us to look more carefully at the world around us, his photographs generally depict close-ups of everyday things, from the interior of a flower or graffiti on a wall to a small pool of water in a sink. As a writer, Thierfelder publishes under the name T. Richard Williams. His poetry and short stories have been published in such diverse venues as Wild Violet, ShadeWorks, Aphelion, and American Poets and Poetry. Two collections of verse—How the Dinosaurs Devoured the Humans and The Letter “S”—and a volume of short stories titled Ten are currently available. He was the Fiction editor of ShadeWorks from 2008--2010, aUK publication devoted to supernatural narratives. He has also been involved in various social causes for many years, including volunteer and activist work for the Momentum AIDS Project (New York City), GMHC, LIAAC, Thursday’s Child of Long Island, and LIGALY. He has started a scholarship—The Sakia Gunn-Matthew Shepard Scholarship—at Dowling College and created the Food Angel’s Project for LIAAC and Thursday’s Child, a program that provides supermarket cards for clients living with HIV/AIDS on Long Island (NY).
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