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Essayist, Poet, playwright, and short story writer
ROBERT VIVIAN grew up in the Dundee neighborhood
of Omaha. He has had over twenty plays produced off and off-off
Broadway. Several have been
published, with monologues appearing
in the international anthologies Best Men and
Women's Stage Monologues from 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.
He holds the PhD in English from University of Nebraska —
Lincoln. Among his most recent plays is Something is Wrong, performed
in Omaha by the Blue Barn Theatre.
He also adapted Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts for Studio
Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, which premiered in February, 2006.
His work has appeared in
Alaska Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, Glimmertrain, Georgia Review,
Jabberwock, Janus Head, Massachusetts Review,
The New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Sycamore Review, Turnrow, and
elsewhere.
His essays have been included in the list of Notable Essays in Best American Essays for the years
2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
His collection of creative nonfiction, Cold Snap as Yearning,
(University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
won the Midland of Society Awards in
for Nonfiction and the Nebraska Book Award for nonfiction
in that same year.
Many of the book's essays
first appeared in Harper's, Creative Nonfiction, Salt
Hill, Sycamore Review, Salt Hill, Seneca Review,
and elsewhere.
He was a finalist for the 2004 Iowa Short Fiction
Award for his collection Eating the Bible.
His first novel, The Mover of Bones, was published by the University of
Nebraska Press in 2006. It was followed by two more:
Lamb Bright Saviors and Another Burning Kingdom, parts two and three of
The Tall Grass Trilogy, also from the
University of Nebraska Press, which has also published a collection of essays, The Town That Burns Eternity Into Your Soul and The Least Cricket of Evening (U of Nebraska Press, 2011). His most recent book, a novel, is
Water and Abandon (Bison Books, 2012).
He is an assistant professor of English
at Alma College in Michigan.
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