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William Baer is the award-winning author of over thirty-five books.  He’s been the grateful recipient of a Guggenheim, a Fulbright (Portugal), and a Creative Writing Grant in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts.  He grew up in the Bronx and Wayne, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Rutgers (B.A.) and New York University (M.A.).  He then 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 (M.A.), he studied at the University of Southern California’s Graduate School of Cinematic Arts (M.A.), where he received the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award.  He currently lives happily in a yellow log cabin in North Jersey, loving pizza, books, sports, and chocolate.

His books include The Gravedigger, Advocatus Diaboli, Equinox, Central Park, Mary Pickford Mystery, Murder in Nashville, the New Jersey Noir mystery series, Formal Salutations: New & Selected Poems, Times Square and Other Stories, One-and-Twenty Tales, Classic American Films, Writing Metrical Poetry, Psalter, and The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award).