William Odaly

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About William Odaly

SUMMARY PROFESSIONAL: Extensive, results-oriented experience in information design and presentation, technical writing and editing, including educational and marketing messages across a wide range of media. An exceptional project delivery record, excellent communication skills, and a high level of self-motivation. LITERARY: William O’Daly has translated eight books of the late-career and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, and most recently Neruda’s first volume, Book of Twilight, a finalist for the 2018 Northern California Book Award in Translation. All nine Neruda translations are published by Copper Canyon Press. William’s books of poems include The Whale in the Web, also published by Copper Canyon, as well as The Road to Isla Negra (2015), Water Ways (2017, a collaboration with JS Graustein), and Yarrow and Smoke (2018), the latter three published by Folded Word Press. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, William was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled by Mike Leonard for The Today Show. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published in numerous journals, on fine-print broadsides, and as part of multimedia exhibits and performances. His essay, “Creative Collisions: Poetry as a Transformative Act,” was a finalist in Tiferet Journal’s 2018 Writing Contest. He has received national and regional honors for literary editing and instructional design, and was a national board member of Poets Against War. In 2017, he was awarded by the State of California for his work on the California Water Plan. Specialties: adobe acrobat, art projects, books, budgeting, cd - rom, consulting, content management, client and customer relations, documentation, editing, graphics, instruction, instructional design, marketing, microsoft office pro, multimedia, operating systems, proposal writing, publicity, software documentation, user interface design, video, writing