Bill Ratner is a voice actor and author of the poetry collection Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press, 2021), poetry chapbook To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press, 2021), and a Best of the Net Poetry Nominee 2023 (Lascaux Review). His writing appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press), Missouri Review (audio), Baltimore Review, Chiron Review, Feminine Collective, and other journals. He is a 9-time winner of the Moth StorySLAM, an officer in his union SAG-AFTRA, a trained grief counsellor, and teaches Voiceovers for SAG-AFTRA Foundation and Media Awareness for Los Angeles Unified School District.