Bill Roorbach is the author most recently of The Remedy for Love, a novel, which was a finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Fiction Prize. His novel Life Among Giants, a Maine Literary Award winner, is in development for a dramatic series with HBO. His memoir in nature, Temple Stream, also a Maine Literary Award winner, was just reissued by Down East Books. Other books include Big Bend: Stories, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award; Into Woods: Essays; Summers With Juliet, a memoir with many chapters taking place on Martha’s Vineyard; the novel The Smallest Color; and Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoir, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature, a craft book used in writing programs around the world. His short work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper’s, Granta, Playboy, Orion, and many other magazines and journals, and his story "Big Bend” was featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and won an O. Henry Prize. He was a judge on the Food Network program All Star Cake Challenge, but only once. He lives and writes in western Maine.
