Robert Anthony Siegel


Robert Anthony Siegel is an American writer and professor. He is the author of two novels and numerous short stories and essays, and has been recognized with O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes among other awards. He is currently an instructor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Creative Writing Department.

Education

A native New Yorker, Siegel was born, raised, and educated on Manhattan. While in high school, he began the study of both Japanese and judo, becoming fluent in the former and a champion in the latter. For his undergraduate education, he attended Harvard University, where he majored in East Asian studies and spent his junior year in Tokyo. He returned to Japan following graduation and studied Comparative Literature at the University of Tokyo on a Mombukagakusho Fellowship. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he received his MFA. The year after that, he was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on a writing fellowship at .

Writing career

In 1997, his first novel All the Money in the World was published. This was followed in 2007 by his second, All Will Be Revealed. An essay collection, Criminals, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2018. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among other venues.

Novels

All Will Be Revealed, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2008, All the Money in the World, Random House, 1997,

Essay collection

  • Criminals, Counterpoint Press, forthcoming in 2017

Short stories (selected)

  • "The Right Imaginary Person,” Tin House, Winter 2012.
  • “,” PANK Online, July 2010.
  • “The Memoirs of Edwin Chester,” Ecotone, Fall/Winter 2008.
  • “Verena Swann,” Ecotone, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2006.
  • “,” Post Road 11, Fall 2005.
  • “Moving Through the Dark,” Story, Summer 1992.

Essays (selected)

  • "Criminals," The Paris Review
  • "Gourmets," Tin House, Fall 2014.
  • "," The New York Times Draft Column, June 21, 2014. Reprinted in the print edition, June 22, 2014.
  • "," Ploughshares, Winter 2013.
  • “,” Ploughshares, Fall 2013.
  • "," Treehouse, May 2012.
  • “Sean,” Harvard Review 38, Spring/Summer 2010.
  • “,” Los Angeles Times Book Review: Off the Shelf, July 2009.
  • “,” with Karen E. Bender, Tablet, December 2007.
  • “An Ode to My Backyard,” The Oxford American, No. 53, Spring 2006.

Anthologies (selected)

  • "The Right Imaginary Person," translated as "Tadashii kakuu no hito" in Eigo de yomu Murakami Haruku: sekai no naka no Nihon bungaku, nigatsu-go, 2015, Fujii Hikaru, translator. Tokyo: NHK Publishing, 2015.
  • "," in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014, Laura Furman, ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2014.
  • “Sean,” in Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, ed. New York: Pushcart Press, 2012.
  • “Sean,” in Freud’s Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings, Elisa Albert, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010.
  • “The Sword, the Light and the Nintendo DS,” with Karen E. Bender, in How To Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers on 8 Nights of Light. Emily Franklin, ed. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007.

Articles, reviews, writer interviews (selected)

  • "," The Paris Review Daily, August 10, 2015
  • "," The Paris Review Daily, August 3, 2015
  • ",” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2015
  • "," Three Percent, May 2015
  • "," The Rumpus, April 2015
  • "," Bookforum, December 2013.
  • "," Bookforum, September 2013.
  • "," Bookforum, August 2013.
  • “,” Bookforum, August 2013.

Awards and fellowships