Bill Holmes is the author of the full-length poetry book Straight From My Heart; the spoken word CD The Air I Breathe; the ESSENCE bestselling fiction novel One Love; and the writer and the director of the independent short films The Program and Butterflies, the latter which was the adaption of One Love. As a poet, he has opened for artists such as The Last Poets and award-winning jazz musician Roy Ayers. His work has been published and featured in 50BOLD, The Philadelphia Inquirer, African Voices, and ESSENCE and the anthologies Journey Into My Brother’s Soul, Erogenous Zone: A Sexual Voyage and Step Up To The Mic: A Poetic Explosion. Bill is the founder of the creative writing course Write Here! Write Now!, which he taught for five years at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA through the grassroots, non-profit organization PASCEP.