Bill Gillard is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He specializes in speculative fiction of the Modernist Era (1880–1940). His scholarly writing, poetry, and prose have appeared in dozens of journals.
His most recent books include The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction (early classics of the genre), The Vade Mecum of the True Sublime (a poetry collection), Down a Man (a novel), Crawl Cram Grind Fail (a short story collection), Speculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century (a co-authored scholarly study of the origins of speculative fiction), and The Spark of Modernism: Twenty Speculative Stories and Writings That Defined an Era, 1886–1939 (the companion short story collection).
He earned a PhD from the University of Portsmouth and an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, with his wife and two daughters.
Paperback: 82 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (June 15, 2024)