William Butler
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Born in northern California and raised in The Woodlands, Texas, Will is the grandson of guitarist Alvino Rey. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 2001, and subsequently attended Northwestern University, majoring in Poetry and Slavic studies. While at Northwestern he worked as a DJ for the WNUR Rock Show, where he also hired Nathan Amundson of Rivulets to be a substitute DJ at WNUR. He also served as the poetry editor of Northwestern’s literary magazine, Helicon. An excerpt of a poem from his senior thesis is quoted in Brian Bouldrey’s book, “Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica.”








