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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.
His current project is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts for Studio
Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, which will premiere in February, 2006.
His work has appeared in
Alaska Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, Glimmertrain,
Jabberwock, Janus Head,
The New York Quarterly, River Teeth, Sycamore Review, Turnrow, and
elsewhere. 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.
New work is out or forthcoming in
Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
Essays have been included in the list of Notable Essays in Best American Essays
(2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005).
His first novel, The Mover of Bones, was published by the University of
Nebraska Press in 2006. It will be followed by two more
The Bomb-Maker's Son and Lamb Bright Saviors, parts two and three of
a trilogy, also from the
University of Nebraska Press.
He is an assistant professor of English
at Alma College in Michigan.
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