J. Brent Bill (born 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American author who now lives in Mooresville, Indiana.
He is a graduate of Wilmington College and Earlham School of Religion. Bill is a recorded minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Ploughshares Farm, where he lives, is slightly over 40 acres (160,000 m2) of former farmland being reclaimed into prairie and native Indiana hardwoods as a wildlife preserve.
Bill is the executive vice president of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations in Indiana. He has been a local church pastor in Indiana and Ohio, as well as an adjunct professor at Earlham School of Religion in Indiana. He has written numerous books, short stories, and magazine articles. He also works as a writing coach.