William Jehu Garroutte is an enrolled Citizen of Cherokee Nation. He had an Army brat childhood and a midwestern adolescence in a town best known for its cattle slaughterhouses. William didn’t go to college, and learned how to write by reading stacks of scripts in the WGA library. Along the way, he worked a wide range of blue-collar jobs, ranging from literal-cow-town day-shift bartender, to historical village tour guide, to graveyard shift valet. William has written on shows for Lionsgate/Showtime, Sony International, Bad Robot/HBO Max, and ABC, and is an alumnus of NBC’s Writers on the Verge program, the ABC/Disney Television Writing Program, and the LA Skinsfest Native American TV Writing Lab. He has developed shows with ABC, UTV, HBO, and CBS.