Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including his 2009 story collection “The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards” (Graywolf Press).
“Boswell is an exuberant and enormously talented writer,” raved the New York Times in its review. ”With dazzling technical skill, intelligence, and moral seriousness, he mesmerizes us.”
Boswell’s novels include “Century’s Son,” “American Owned Love,” “Mystery Ride,” “The Geography of Desire” and “Crooked Hearts.”
His other story collections are “Living to Be 100″ and “Dancing in the Movies.”
His nonfiction includes “The Half-Known World,” a book on the craft of writing, and “What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak,” a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel).
His cyberpunk novel “Virtual Death” (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His play “Tongues” won the John Gassner Prize.
Boswell has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil Companions Award.
His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Best Stories from the South, Esquire, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Colorado Review and many other magazines.
He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson.
Visit him online at www.robertboswell.com.
