William Roorbach (born August 8, 1953) is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic.

[9] In 2001, he quit his tenured position and returned with his family to Maine where he taught odd semesters as visiting full professor at Colby College.

Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, a five-year position as full professor.

[11] In the winter of 2019 Roorbach returned to teaching as a faculty member of the Newport MFA in creative writing at Salve Regina College.

Big Bend was featured on the NPR program Selected Shorts, performed by the actor James Cromwell.

[19] Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth, a widely adopted anthology, was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.

[18] [3] And The Remedy for Love, also a novel, was one of six finalists for the 2014 Kirkus Fiction Prize..[4] His book, The Girl of the Lake, is a short story collection published in June 2017.