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Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach writes fiction and nonfiction, and is the author of seven books, including The Smallest Color, a novel, and Big Bend, which won the Flannery O’Connor prize in short fiction, while the title story won an O. Henry Prize.  Temple Stream, his most recent book, won the 2006 Maine Book Award in nonfiction.  Writing Life Stories, his bestselling book of instruction, is now available in a fully revised and updated 10th anniversary edition.  His short work, fiction, journalism, creative nonfiction, and criticism has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, Harper's, New York, and dozens of other magazines and journals.  He lives in Farmington, Maine, where he's just finishing a new novel.