Bill Konigsberg is an award-winning American author, best known for his LGBT novels. He was born on November 11, 1970. Some of his most acclaimed works include Out of the Pocket, Openly Straight, The Porcupine of Truth, Honestly Ben, The Music of What Happens, and The Bridge.

His debut novel, Out of the Pocket, won the Lambda Literary Award in 2009. Following that, Openly Straight won the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor and was a finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award and Lambda Literary Award in 2014. It has been translated into five languages.

The Porcupine of Truth received the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award in 2016. The Music of What Happens, released in 2019, received two starred reviews and has been optioned for a film. His 2020 release, The Bridge, also garnered two starred reviews and was optioned for a film by Amazon.

Prior to writing, Bill was a sports writer and editor for The Associated Press and ESPN.com. He earned a GLAAD Media Award in 2002 for his column "Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays."

Bill currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona, with his husband, Chuck, and their two Australian Labradoodles, Mabel and Buford. In 2018, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)'s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) established the Bill Konigsberg Award for Acts and Activism for Equity and Inclusion through Young Adult Literature. This acknowledgment remains one of his proudest achievements.