Bill Reinert is a retired journalist and teacher who spends his “seven-day weekends” writing satire, playing the piano, working word puzzles, and torturing his cats with a laser pointer. He also volunteers as a tutor in an ESL class for adult immigrants and studies Spanish in his spare time. He has written for, edited,and copyedited at newspapers and magazines in Texas and up and down the West Coast.

Born in Rhode Island, he graduated from the University of Rhode Island and hitchhiked across the country in his 20’s, falling in love with the Great Northwest along the way. He’s spent most of his life on the Left Coast, mostly in Portland, Oregon, where he resides.