William Ogden Haynes is a poet and author of short fiction from Alabama who was born in Michigan and grew up a military brat. His book of poetry entitled "Points of Interest" appeared in 2012 and is available on Amazon. He has also published over seventy poems and short stories in literary journals and his work has been anthologized multiple times. In a prior life he earned his Ph.D. in communication disorders from Bowling Green State University, taught speech-language pathology at Auburn University for three decades, authored six major professional textbooks and over fifty research articles.