William Stott, a Carrboro resident for 18 years, is a member of the OWASA Board’s Natural Resources/Technical Systems, Ad Hoc Art and Ad Hoc Property Committees. He serves on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Institute for the Environment. His scholarship has focused on American nature writing and “ecocriticism”; a grant from NC Sea Grant initiated ongoing ethnographic research in NC commercial fishing communities.  He has published several poems, in Petroglyph, Wild Mountain Times, and, most notably, the Weaver Street Market Newsletter. His first volume of poetry, “Loomings,” will be published one of these days by Horse & Buggy Press in Durham, hopefully some time soon. He teaches courses in Nature Writing and various topics in Literature and Environment, including representation of wetlands landscapes, the literature of place, and the representation of commercial fishing in folklore, literature, and contemporary science. He has received three teaching awards at Chapel Hill, including the Tanner Award. Dr. Stott’s hobbies include birdwatching, amateur botanizing, camping, and taking long walks on barrier islands and ancient mountains.