William Zander was one of Serving House Books first published authors with the 2009 collection Going Haywire and Other Old Sayings. He published poetry in many periodicals (e.g., Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazy Horse, Defined Providence, Light, New Letters, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Rattapallax, South Dakota Review, et al.) and one book of poems, Distances, from Solo Press. He was a contributing editor of The Literary Review and retired from teaching at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey until his passing in 2019.