William Schuth

Poet & editor William Schuth, a native of the Driftless Area, grew up in small communities on both banks of the upper Mississippi River. After graduating from culinary school in 2002, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. In 2004 he deployed to Iraq’s Al-Anbar Province with Echo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines; in-country, Echo was employed by Regimental Combat Team 7 as a counter-battery fire artillery unit and provisional rifle company in several areas around Al-Anbar, including Camp MEK/Fallujah, Haditha Dam, Al-Asad Airbase, Camp Korean Village, FOB Trebil, and FOB Waleed. William’s poetry seeks to reconcile impressions of and experiences in the desert landscapes of Iraq, Kuwait, and the American Southwest with life amid the bluffs and river valleys of Minnesota and Wisconsin. William is the poetry editor of The Deadly Writers Patrol, a literary journal concerned with war and its aftermath. He resettled in Madison a decade ago.