Robert is the author of Bodock, which won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize and was published by Hub City Press in June 2025. His stories have appeared in Pleiades, PANK, Mississippi Noir, Cold Mountain Review, Sou'wester, Arkansas Review, and Surreal South. A native of north Mississippi, he now lives and writes in Memphis, Tennessee, with his wife, two kids, a Plott hound, and a shepherd-terrier mix. Currently, he's working on a literary crime novel also set during the 1994 Mid-South Ice Storm.