Bill Copeland – Poet
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend
your life running up and down the field and never score - Bill Copeland
Bill Copeland (1946-2010) was an American poet, writer and
historian. He was born at the Emory University Hospital in 1946. He was raised
in Dekalb County, Georgia and lived above his father’s country store. During
the 1970s Copeland earned his master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from
the University of Georgia. Copeland has held many jobs throughout his life
consisting of a probation counselor, a parole officer in Augusta, and also a
disability adjudicator for people seeking social security in Atlanta. He then
started his own private practice before retiring in 1995 at the age of 49. It
wasn't until after his retirement that Copeland began to write. He was a member
of the Georgia Writers Association, the National Writers Association, and
Libros International. – Wikipedia
