Robin Hemley is an international writer, who has published a dozen books as well as essays and short stories around the world. He is the Founder and past President of NonfictioNOW, the leading international conference for literary nonfiction. A past Vice President of AWP, past Faculty Chair of the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College (now Vermont College of Fine Arts) he is currently The Director of the Writing Program and Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, Professor of Humanities and Writer-in-Residence.