Bill Ratner is a published poet, essayist, 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slams, and the author of Familius Publications' Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth behind Media's Effect on Children and What To Do About It—an Indie Excellence Book Award winner, Eric Hoffer Award finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist, and achieved #1 Hot New Release on amazon.com. His poetry, short fiction, and personal essays are published in The Chiron Review, Ramingo's Porch, The Baltimore Review, The Missouri Review Audio Contest, The Coachella Review, FeminineCollective.com, Blue Lake Review, Southern Anthology, Spork, NiteBlade.com, The Amor Fati, Pleiades, National Cheng Kung Literary, Papier Maché Press, TV Marquee, Coast Magazine, Wolfsinger Press Metastasis anthology, and he is co-author of Secrets of Voiceover Success from Sentient.

Bill is a 2-time winner of The Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension for Solo Performance. His spoken word performances can be heard on National Public Radio's Good Food, The Business, and KCRW's Strangers. He has told stories at Comedy Central Stage, National Storytelling Festival, Long Beach Comic Con, Portland Storytelling Festival, G.I. Joe Con, Timpanogos Storytelling Conference, National Storytelling Network Conference, and Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms since 1992.

HUFFINGTON POST: ”More than just the premiere voiceover talent in Hollywood, Ratner writes with the subtlety and texture worthy of a literary fiction master.”

Bill holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from U.C. Riverside/Palm Desert, he teaches Voices for Storytellers and From Story to Poem for colleges, festivals, and The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, and is a member of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association, National Storytelling Network, and International Storytelling Network.