Bill Cotter is the author of the novels Fever Chart and The Parallel Apartments, both published by McSweeney's. He is also responsible for the middle-grade adventure series Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures, penned under the name W. Stone Cotter, and published by Macmillan. Cotter's short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. An essay, "The Gentleman's Library," was awarded a Pushcart Prize. When he is not writing, Cotter labors in the antiquarian book trade.