Billy Renkl (b. 1963) grew up in Birmingham, AL. He attended Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, where he received an MFA in Drawing. He currently teaches drawing and illustration at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.

Billy's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including solo shows at The Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts in New Orleans, Vanderbilt University, The University of Alabama, The University of Kentucky, The Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Galerie Neue Raume, Berlin, Germany. He is in numerous permanent collections, including The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kiwanis Club International, The Tennessee State Museum, and The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore.