Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach’s newest book is Lucky Turtle. Also from Algonquin are The Girl of the Lake, The Remedy for Love, and Life Among Giants, which won the Maine Literary Award in Fiction in 2012. Big Bend:Stories won the Flannery O’Connor Award and an O. Henry prize, both in 2000. His memoir in nature, Temple Stream, won the Maine Literary Award in nonfiction in 2005 and along with its companion books, Into Woods and Summers with Juliet, is available in a recent Downeast Books edition.  His craft book, Writing Life Stories, has been in print for 25 years. He lives in Maine.