Bill Pendergraft holds an MA in Education from American University and was a former classroom English teacher and media specialist. After directing the US marketing program for TVOntario in Toronto, he founded Environmental Media to write and produce environmental education media for public and not-for-profit organizations worldwide.

During his continual travels he met those working to protect and preserve the natural world, keeping extensive diaries of his reflections about people and place. He has published his prose and poetry widely and his book, Love in the Age of Loneliness, is a collection of his latest poetry. 

Bill lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.