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William R. Forstchen (born 1950) is an American science fiction author who began publishing in 1983 with the novel Ice Prophet. He is an associate professor of history at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina. He received his doctorate from Purdue University with a specialization in the American Civil War.

Forstchen is the author of more than forty books, including We Look Like Men of War, a young adult novel about an African-American regiment that fought at the Battle of the Crater, which is based upon his doctoral dissertation, The 28th USCTs: Indiana's African-Americans go to War, 1863-1865. His best known works may be the "Lost Regiment" books which transport a regiment of Union soldiers from the American Civil War to a medieval style world.