Bill Roorbach

These stories won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press, and have appeared in such publications as Harper's, The Atlantic, and the Missouri Review. The title story, "Big Bend," has been featured on the NPR program "Selected Shorts" as read by actor James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential"), and is included in three new prize collections: "O.Henry Prize Stories 2002," "New Stories from the South: Best of 2002," and the new "The Silver Rose Award Anthology." Ten stories, mostly about men and love and trouble.

"Immensely appealing...Roorbach's tender, affecting stories will leave you feeling as if you've come to understand your own missteps and misjudgments slightly better, and to forgive yourself a little more." --Newsday

"Roorbach is as raw and engaged a writer as you'll ever read...He rivals James Baldwin in his ability to miraculously open up rivers of male sentiment."
--Los Angeles Weekly