Bill Winkley holds a bachelors degree in Humanities with a major in English from St. Edward's University of Austin, Texas, and a masters degree in Education from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has published in the Pacific Islands Monthly, the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, the Papua New Guinea Post Courier, the Niugini Nuis, the Silver City Daily Press, and the Silver City Sun-News.

He has lived overseas for eight years and has worked and traveled extensively in the South Pacific, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil and the United States. His career in human services orients his writing toward personalities, human interest subjects, travel, the outdoors and geography.

Bill's works often appear in publications in the Silver City area and usually deal with quality of life issues affecting the community. He knows well the infrastructure of services offered in the community and is often advocating for their improvement and expansion. Whether he is writing about the geography of his home area or doing a piece for a professional journal, he tends to focus on and write about the people involved.

For eight years Bill lived and worked in Papua New Guinea and Fiji, from where he traveled extensively around Asia. He published several articles about human services offered across the South Pacific in the Pacific Island Monthly, a news magazine published in Fiji and distributed across the region.

In addition to his writing, Bill currently provides consultancy services to human service organizations in Mexico, Texas and the Silver City area. He sits on the Grant County Maternal Child Health Council and has served as a big brother with the Grant County Big Brother/Big Sister program. He has taught special education courses at the University of Texas at El Paso and tutored English as a Second Language (ESL) at the University of Papua New Guinea. He has conducted faculty development and has guest lectured at Western New Mexico University in Silver City. He is editor and principal writer for two quarterly newsletters, Scott Nichols Community News of Silver City and One Family International of Austin, Texas. In 1997 Bill was honored as one of twelve outstanding volunteers in Grant County, New Mexico.