William Hurst is an undergraduate at Lee University, Cleveland, TN. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies. His poetry emphasizes the place of the natural in unnatural circumstances, and is influenced primarily by the work of T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, and Charles Simic. He has been published in the Lee Review and in the online literary magazines Asphodel Madness, Word Catalyst, Haggard & Halloo, Doxa, and The Blue Route. He plans to eventually finish an M.A. and a Ph.D in English with an emphasis in poetry.