Robert Cohen is the author of five works of fiction, most recently Amateur Barbarians and Inspired Sleep, and the coeditor of a new anthology, The Writer’s Reader. His stories and essays have been widely published in Harpers, Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Believer, and other magazines. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lila Wallace Writers Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Middlebury College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.