Robin Hemley

Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and many other awards, including the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago Tribune and three Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction. He has published fifteen books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Hemley received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa for nine years. He is the inaugural director of the Polk School of Communications, codirector of the MFA in Creative Writing, Parsons Family Chair in Creative Writing, and University Professor at Long Island University Brooklyn.