Lewis Robinson is the author of the new novel “Water Dogs” and the collection “Officer Friendly and Other Stories,” which won the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award.
The New York Times called “Water Dogs” a “quietly commanding book,” and observed that Robinson “clearly understands how to make a smudge of light glow against a dark background, how to negotiate winter’s tandem essences of threat and beauty. In its rendering of the complicated, rich, mostly unspoken relationship between a young man and the place he lives, ‘Water Dogs’ is a lovely novel.”
Born in Massachusetts and raised in Buffalo and Maine, he attended Middlebury College, then worked as John Irving’s assistant for two years before moving to Brooklyn to be an art mover. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2001, then returned to Maine, where public libraries reign and adult rec sports are fiercely intense.
He teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, and coaches middle-school basketball in Portland, where he lives with his wife, daughter and dog.
Visit him online at www.lewisrobinson.com.
