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What Makes Blue Leaf Unique.
Founded by William Wright, Ph.D., Blue Leaf Writing and Editing is an internet-based business located about an hour north of Atlanta, in the mountains of Dahlonega, GA. I offer both electronic and hardcopy services. All services are conducted in American English.
Blue Leaf differs from most editorial services in several crucial ways. I happily offer proofreading, editing, and revision of academic essays in any discipline using any style guidelines (i.e., APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) for graduate students and academic professionals, and I offer writing and editorial services for businesses at cost-effective rates.
Because I have had the great fortune to publish in multiple creative and academic genres, including poetry, short stories, academic essays, book reviews, creative nonfiction, translations, and novel excerpts, it is a great joy for me to offer my wide-ranging expertise to aspiring creative writers and to academic writers. I look forward to working with you!
about the editor.
My name is William Wright, and I’ve taught poetry writing, fiction writing, nonfiction writing, American and British literature, and critical studies at Emory University (main campus) and Oxford College of Emory University, where I was Visiting Assistant Professor. Before this, I served as the Writer-in-Residence for the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), where I taught MFA and PhD candidates in creative writing.
I am author or editor of over twenty university press-published, nationally distributed books, I have placed essays, reviews, academic articles, translations, and poetry in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, North American Review, New Letters, Antioch Review, Nimrod, New Orleans Review, Smartish Pace, Colorado Review, Epoch, AGNI, and many others. Currently, I am working on a novel, a new collection of poems, a book of essays, and a book-length co-translation of German Expressionist poetry.
My full-length poetry collections include Grass Chapels: New & Selected Poems (Mercer University Press, 2021), Specter Mountain (Mercer University Press, 2018, with Jesse Graves, winner of Appalachian Book of the Year), Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, 2015, winner of Georgia Author of the Year), Creeks of the Upper South (Jacar Press/Unicorn Press, 2016, with Amy Wright), Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011), and Dark Orchard (Winner of the Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize, 2005). I have published four poetry chapbooks, including April Creatures (Blue Horse Press, 2014).
I am series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology (Texas Review Press), and nine volumes have appeared thus far (South Carolina, Mississippi, Contemporary Appalachia, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia). In 2009, I earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Modern and Contemporary American Literature (while studying British Literature) from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers.
I have worked as a software designer for the video game industry, where I wrote the lore (which included five planets), the characters, etc. In my late teens and early 20s, I was a journalist for the software industry. Nowadays, I am preoccupied by the study of several sciences, particularly American South ecosystems; the music of J. S. Bach, the poetics of video games, the implications of untethered artificial intelligence, and, most of all, the teaching and writing of literary art.
I have been editing dissertations, theses, essays, and creative works for twenty-five years. If you’d like to learn more about my background, please visit my author website..