Will (he/him) is professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. In addition to directing the University Writing Program and the Tar River Writing Project, Will teaches courses in writing, research, and pedagogy, as well as LGBTQ and young adult literatures. His essays on digital rhetorics, queer rhetorics, writing assessment, pedagogy, and writing program administration have appeared in several recent books, as well as in College Composition & Communication, College English, and Computers & Composition. He has edited five collections of scholarship, including English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities (2021) and Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects (2019). His co-authored monograph Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment (2023) challenges many of our field’s values around writing and assessment in order to ask how we might reimagine our work through a new model: queer validity inquiry. Failing Sideways has been awarded the 2024 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award and has received Honorable Mentions for the 2024 CCCC Best Book Award and the 2024 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.