He completed his doctoral dissertation in English at the University of South Carolina under the direction of James Dickey, before attending the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars where he earned an M.A.
His other books include translations from the Portuguese, Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets; the textbook, Writing Metrical Poetry; and three collections of poet interviews.
William Baer’s fiction has been awarded a Creative Writing Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
He is the author of fifteen novels in widely divergent genres, including literary, mystery,[5] love-themed, and Catholic-themed.
His full-length drama, Three Generations of Imbeciles, received the New Works of Merit Playwriting Award[7] and was chosen for the regionals of the 2013 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.