Bill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon, among other publications.

His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. He lives in New York.