• Source: Robin Hemley

Robin Hemley, born in New York City, is an American nonfiction and fiction writer. He is the author of fifteen books, and has had work published in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Conjunctions, The Sun, and Narrative, among others. In 2020, he joined the faculty of Long Island University, where his is Director and Polk Professor in Residence of the George Polk School of Communications.




Life and career


Robin Hemley was born to a Jewish family. His father, Cecil Hemley, was co-founder, with Arthur A. Cohen, of Noonday Press. His mother, Elaine Gottlieb Hemley, published fiction and poetry.
Hemley graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a B.A. in comparative literature and from the University of Iowa with an MFA in Fiction. He earned a PhD in creative practice from the University of New South Wales in 2020.
His writing awards include three Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, first place in the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from The Chicago Tribune, and the Independent Press Book Award for Nonfiction.
At Western Washington University, he edited The Bellingham Review for five years and founded the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction. In 2004, he began teaching at the University of Iowa where he was hired as the Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, and since 2000 he has taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he served as Faculty Chair for three years. At the University of Iowa, he founded the NonfictioNOW Conference in 2005.
From 2013 to 2019, he was the Director of the Writing Program, Writer-in-Residence, and Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
He lives in Brooklyn, is married, and has four daughters.




Selected works


Fiction
The Mouse Town and Other Stories (Word Beat Press, 1987) ISBN 978-0912527062
All You Can Eat (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988) ISBN 978-0871132611
The Last Studebaker, a novel (Graywolf Press, 1992) ISBN 978-0253000125
The Big Ear, stories (Blair, 1997) ISBN 978-0895871640
Reply All: Stories (Indiana University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0253001801
Non-fiction
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness (Graywolf Press, 1998) ISBN 978-1609381790
Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (Bison Books, 2003) ISBN 978-0803273634
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists, with Michael Martone (Pearson Education, 2003) ISBN 978-0321179722
Do-Over! In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments (Little, Brown and Company, 2009) ISBN 978-0316020602
A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel (University of Georgia Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0820342559
I'll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, editor, with Hope Edelman (University of Chicago Press, 2015) ISBN 978-0226306339
Turning Life into Fiction (Chinese edition, Renmin University Press, 2018)
Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) ISBN 978-1496220417
The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) ISBN 978-1350076549
Short stories
"All Good Things are Surprises" (Narrative, 2007)




References






External links


Official website
University of Iowa department bio
Hemley's interview with Steve Paulson on To the Best of Our Knowledge on Wisconsin Public Radio

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• Xu Xi
• Robin Hemley
• St. Andrew's-Sewanee School
• Robin Hood (2006 TV series)
• Michael Martone
• Here I Am (Air Supply song)
• Tasaday
• March 1972
• Immersion journalism
• Hope Edelman
• George Town Literary Festival