Bill Hemmig is the author of Americana: Stories and Brethren Hollow, both published by Read Furiously. His short stories appear in Read Furiously’s Life in the Garden State anthologies, The World Takes and Stay Salty, and in the Toho Publishing anthology, The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia, 2021. He has had stories published in the journals The Madison Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Children, Churches and Daddies (cc&d), and he is a three-time finalist in the New Millennium Writing Awards. By day he is the Dean of the Learning Resources & Online Learning at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania.
Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Find Bill Online at: https://www.bucksarts.org/bill-hemmig/ https://www.instagram.com/billhemmig https://twitter.com/billhemmig
Interview by Melanie P. Smith
I was born and raised in Reading, PA, and now I’m back in PA (Bucks County) by way of New York City, New Haven, CT, and the New Jersey side of the Delaware Valley. I started my writing career as a playwright and had several Off-OffBroadway and regional productions, but for the past 15 years or so I’ve been writing short fiction exclusively. I have two published books and my stories also appear in two anthologies and several literary journals (see the link to my webpage, later in this article). By day I’m a community college administrator. I live in a rural-ish cottage with my senior cat, Duchess.