Professional Experience
Bill Roorbach's newest novel is "Lucky Turtle." "The Girl of the Lake: Ten Stories" was long-listed for the 2017 Story Prize. Also from Algonquin are "The Remedy for Love," a finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize, and the best-selling "Life Among Giants," which won a Maine Literary Award in fiction. An earlier collection, "Big Bend," won the Flannery O'Connor and O. Henry prizes. His memoirs in nature, "Summers with Juliet," "Into Woods" and "Temple Stream," are all available in new paperback editions. "Temple Stream" won a Maine Literary Award in nonfiction. Roorbach has been an NEA fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Kaplan Foundation Fellow and, most recently, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation fellow and resident at their castello in Umbria, Italy. He was a recipient of Ohio Arts Council grants in both nonfiction and literary criticism. His craft book, "Writing Life Stories," has been in print for 25 years. Roorbach was a tenured associate professor at Ohio State University and later held the William H.P. Jenks Chair and was professor at the College of the Holy Cross. Short work, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York Magazine, Playboy and dozens more.