Biography of William Fowkes

William Fowkes is a playwright and fiction writer living in New York. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. as well as the River Writers Group of Manhattan, he is the author of numerous short stories, novels, short plays, and full-length plays. His first play, The Session, was a finalist in the Strawberry One-Act Festival Winter 2005 at the Bernie West Theater in Manhattan. His second play, The Dakota, received a Best Short Play Award at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival 2005 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in June 2005 and was featured in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's Octoberfest 2005. His fiction has appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, The Dirty Goat, Queer Ramblings Magazine, and Lynx Eye, at the Edinburgh International Internet Festival, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale University (BA, magna cum laude) and Northwestern University (MA, PhD), he is also the author of the book, A Hegelian Account of Contemporary Art and several articles on philosophy and aesthetics. He began his professional life as a professor of philosophy and aesthetics, teaching at Hobart & William Smith Colleges and Northwestern University. Since leaving academia, he has held a variety of marketing, communication, and strategic planning positions at Time Magazine, HBO, CBS, and Showtime Networks. He is currently VP of Affiliate Communication at Showtime. A resident of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, he is also an avid theatergoer, pianist, singer, photographer, urban gardener, and the proud father of two daughters.