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Robin Hemley, born May 28, 1958 in New York City, is a Jewish American nonfiction and fiction writer, author of twelve books, most recently, the short story collection, REPLY ALL (Break Away Books, Indiana University Press, 2012). ==Biography== Robin Hemley was born to a literary family. His parents were both translators and editors of the work of Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, and his father, Cecil Hemley, was co-founder, with Arthur A. Cohen, of The Noonday Press. He graduated from Indiana University in Comparative Literature in 1980 and from the University of Iowa with an MFA in Fiction in 1982. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Ohioana Library Association, and the Washington State Arts Council. He has had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Ragdale, and the Edward Albee Foundation. His awards include two Pushcart Prizes for Fiction, first place in the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from ''The Chicago Tribune'', and the Independent Press Book 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 (now Vermont College of Fine Arts) where he served as Faculty Chair for three years. He has also taught at the University of Utah, Western Washington University, St. Lawrence University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 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. At the University of Iowa, he founded the NonfictioNow Conference in 2005. In 2013, he was hired as the Director of the Writer's Centre at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He currently lives in Singapore, is married, and has four daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robin Hemley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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