William Baer

William Baer, a recent Guggenheim fellow, is the award-winning author of thirty-five books, including fifteen novels, most recently: Equinox, Advocatus Diaboli, The Gravedigger, Mary Pickford Mystery, Murder in Nashville, and New Jersey Noir: Barnegat Light. His other books include Times Square and Other Stories, One-and-Twenty Tales, Classic American Films, Writing Metrical Poetry, Psalter, Formal Salutations: New & Selected Poems, and The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award).

A graduate of Rutgers and New York University, he completed his dissertation in creative writing at the University of South Carolina under the direction of James Dickey. After attending the Johns Hopkins’ Writing Seminars, he served as a Fulbright at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and then attended the University of Southern California’s Graduate School of Cinema, where he received the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. He’s also been the recipient of a Creative Writing Grant in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he lives happily in a log cabin in northern New Jersey, loving pizza, sports, books, and chocolate.