Robley Wilson is the author of three novels: "The World Still Melting" (2005), "Splendid Omens" (2004) and "The Victim's Daughter" (1991). His new story collection, "Who Will Hear Your Secrets?", was published in spring 2012 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Wilson is co-editor with his...
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Robley Wilson is the author of three novels: "The World Still Melting" (2005), "Splendid Omens" (2004) and "The Victim's Daughter" (1991). His new story collection, "Who Will Hear Your Secrets?", was published in spring 2012 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Wilson is co-editor with his wife, Susan Hubbard, of "100% Pure Florida Fiction", a short-story anthology. His five previous short story collections are: "The Pleasures of Manhood" (1977), "Living Alone" (1978), "Dancing for Men" (1983, winner of the 1982 Drue Heinz Literature Prize), "Terrible Kisses" (1989, a New York Times Notable Book), and "The Book of Lost Fathers" (2001).Wilson taught creative writing at the University of Northern Iowa from 1963 to 1996, and from 1969 to 2000 was editor of the North American Review, a university-owned magazine which twice won the National Magazine Award for Fiction administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors. "Everything Paid For" (2000) is Wilson's most recent poetry collection. His first, "Kingdoms of the Ordinary", was the 1986 Agnes Lynch Starrett prizewinner. His second, "A Pleasure Tree", won the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize for 1990. A chapbook, "A Walk Through the Human Heart", was published in 1996 by Helicon Nine editions. He has been visiting writer at Beloit College, the University of Iowa, Pitzer College and the University of Central Florida, and was a 1983-84 Guggenheim Fellow in fiction. He held a 1995-96 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. He now lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife and five demanding cats.
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