Robert Cohen is the author of several novels, most recently Amateur Barbarians and Inspired Sleep, and a collection of stories, The Varieties of Romantic Experience. Winner of a Lila Atcheston Wallace -Reader’s Digest Writers Award, the Ribalow Prize, The Pushcart Prize, and a Whiting Award, he has published short fiction in a variety of publications — including Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review and Ploughshares. He teaches at Middlebury College.