Bill Gaythwaite is the author of a novel, Underburn, and the short story collection A Place in the World, winner of the 2025 Drue Heinz Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Subtropics, Chicago Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, South Carolina Review, and Puerto del Sol, among many other publications. He is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize.

Bill grew up in Boston, graduated from Nasson College in Springvale, Maine and attended the Dante Alighieri Institute in Florence. He has worked at Columbia University since 2006, where he was on the staff of the Committee on Asia and the Middle East and is currently the Assistant Director for Special Populations at Columbia Law School.