William Lychack (born c. 1966) is the author of two novels, The Wasp Eater and Cargill Falls, along with a short story collection The Architect of Flowers and other works.

[3] He attended Connecticut College,[1] where as a sophomore he took a writing course with Blanche McCrary Boyd.

Boyd brought in a number of writers to speak to the students including William Styron, Norman Mailer, Francine du Plessix Gray, Renata Adler, Alexander Cockburn, Joe McGinniss, and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.

[1] Lychack has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award, a Sherwood Anderson Award, a Pittsburgh Foundation Grant, and has been a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection.

[3] The New York Times described The Wasp Eater as a "spare, meticulous novel (that) opens out like a poem, its deceptively casual images bearing a universe of weight.