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{{short description|American novelist}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Robin Hemley
| image = Robin Hemley Kindergarten Music Class.jpg
| caption = Hemley at a music class for DO-OVER
| birth_place = [[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| occupation = Writer, professor
| education = {{ubl|[[Indiana University]] (BA)|[[University of Iowa]] (MFA)}}
| awards = {{ubl|[[Guggenheim Fellowship]]|[[Pushcart Prize]]}}
}}
'''Robin Hemley''', born in [[New York City]], is an American nonfiction and fiction writer. He is the author of fifteen books, and has had work published in ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]]'', ''[[Creative Nonfiction (magazine)|Creative Nonfiction]]'', ''Brevity'', ''[[Conjunctions (journal)|Conjunctions]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/about/contributors/robin-hemley|title=Robin Hemley  {{!}}  Conjunctions — The forum for innovative writing|website=www.conjunctions.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref> ''[[The Sun (magazine)|The Sun]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesunmagazine.org/contributors/robin-hemley|title=The Sun Magazine|website=www.thesunmagazine.org|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref> and ''[[Narrative Magazine|Narrative]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/robin-hemley|title=Robin Hemley {{!}} Narrative Magazine|date=2008-06-06|work=Narrative Magazine|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref> among others. In 2020, he joined the faculty of Long Island University, where his is Director and Polk Professor in Residence of the George Polk School of Communications.<ref name="LIU">{{Cite web|url=https://headlines.liu.edu/?p=3361|title=Guggenheim Winner to Lead George Polk School of Communications|website=What's New at LIU|date=21 July 2020 |language=en-US|access-date=2021-12-10}}</ref>

==Life and career==
Robin Hemley was born to a Jewish family. His father, Cecil Hemley, was co-founder, with [[Arthur A. Cohen]], of [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux|Noonday Press]]. His mother, Elaine Gottlieb Hemley, published fiction and poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lakechapalaartists.com/?p=3116|title=Novelist Elaine Gottlieb|website=Lake Chapala Artists|language=en-US|access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref>

Hemley graduated from [[Indiana University Bloomington]] with a B.A. in comparative literature and from the [[University of Iowa]] with an MFA in Fiction.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://english.uiowa.edu/people/robin-hemley|title=Robin Hemley {{!}} Department of English {{!}} College of Liberal Arts & Sciences {{!}} The University of Iowa|website=english.uiowa.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref> He earned a PhD in creative practice from the [[University of New South Wales]] in 2020.

His writing awards include three [[Pushcart Prize]]s in fiction and nonfiction, first place in the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from ''The Chicago Tribune'', and the Independent Press Book Award for Nonfiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.creativenonfiction.org/authors/robin-hemley|title=Robin Hemley {{!}} Creative Nonfiction|website=www.creativenonfiction.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref>

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. 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 of Fine Arts]], where he served as Faculty Chair for three years. At the University of Iowa, he founded the NonfictioNOW Conference in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aalauthors.com/robin-hemley/|title=Robin Hemley|website=the international writing life|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref>

From 2013 to 2019, he was the Director of the Writing Program, Writer-in-Residence, and Professor of Humanities at [[Yale-NUS College]] in [[Singapore]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2014/04/questions-and-answers-with-robin-hemley.html|title=Questions and Answers With Robin Hemley|website=www.asianbooksblog.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref>

He lives in [[Brooklyn]], is married, and has four daughters.

==Selected works==

;Fiction
*''The Mouse Town and Other Stories'' (Word Beat Press, 1987) {{ISBN|978-0912527062}}
*''All You Can Eat'' ([[Grove Atlantic|Atlantic Monthly Press]], 1988) {{ISBN|978-0871132611}}
*''The Last Studebaker'', a novel ([[Graywolf Press]], 1992) {{ISBN|978-0253000125}}
*''The Big Ear'', stories (Blair, 1997) {{ISBN|978-0895871640}}
*''Reply All: Stories'' ([[Indiana University Press]], 2012) {{ISBN|978-0253001801}}

;Non-fiction
*''Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness'' (Graywolf Press, 1998) {{ISBN|978-1609381790}}<ref>{{cite news|first=Christopher|last=Clair|title=Life with Nola|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-christopher-clair-life-wit/129258447/|accessdate=August 1, 2023|newspaper=The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|date= April 14, 2013|page=M14|agency=University of Iowa News Services|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
*''Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday'' ([[University of Nebraska Press|Bison Books]], 2003) {{ISBN|978-0803273634}}
*''Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists'', with Michael Martone ([[Pearson Education]], 2003) {{ISBN|978-0321179722}}
*''Do-Over! In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments'' ([[Little, Brown and Company]], 2009) {{ISBN|978-0316020602}}
*''A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel'' ([[University of Georgia Press]], 2012) {{ISBN|978-0820342559}}
*''I'll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program'', editor, with Hope Edelman ([[University of Chicago Press]], 2015) {{ISBN|978-0226306339}}
*''Turning Life into Fiction'' (Chinese edition, Renmin University Press, 2018)
*''Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood'' ([[University of Nebraska Press]], 2020) {{ISBN|978-1496220417}}
*''The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology'', with [[Xu Xi (writer)|Xu Xi]] ([[Bloomsbury Publishing]], 2021) {{ISBN|978-1350076549}}

;Short stories
*"All Good Things are Surprises" (''Narrative'', 2007)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2007/short-shorts/all-good-things-are-surprises-robin-hemley|title=All Good Things Are Surprises by Robin Hemley {{!}} Narrative Magazine|date=2008-08-14|work=Narrative Magazine|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.robinhemley.com}}
* [https://english.uiowa.edu/people/robin-hemley University of Iowa department bio]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090617105216/http://wpr.org/book/030803a.html Hemley's interview with Steve Paulson] on ''To the Best of Our Knowledge'' on Wisconsin Public Radio

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