BILL ARNOLD WAS BORN in 1938 in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was educated there, in Massachusetts and New York, and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He served in the United States Air Force, stationed in Puerto Rico. He was a professor of English, in Massachusetts and Florida. He is the author of many poems, several works of fiction, one for which he received his MFA in creative writing. He is the author of science articles in astronomy, numerous articles in newspapers, and eight published books: College Town, a novel; Quiet of Darkness, a novel; Spoof, a tabloid whodunnit; Aimee's