Bill Roorbach is the author most recently of The Remedy for Love, which was a finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize in Fiction. Life Among Giants won the Maine Literary Award for fiction in 2012.  Two memoirs in nature, Temple Stream and Into Woods, have just been reissued in quality paperback editions by Down East Books. Big Bend won the Flannery O'Connor Prize and the title story won an O. Henry Award.  His craft book, Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memory into Memoir, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature, is used in writing programs around the world. He lives in western Maine and writes full time.