Robert M. Detman has published fiction in The Antioch Review, Santa Monica Review, Evergreen Review, Wisconsin Review, elimae, Word Riot and elsewhere. His short stories were selected as finalists for the New Letters Literary Awards in 2008 and 2007, and a novel excerpt was recognized for the 2007 Abroad Writers Conference, for which he was awarded a fellowship to attend the conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has penned reviews for New City and Rain Taxi Review of Books, and some of this work was translated into Romanian for the Romania Literara Foundation Journal. In addition, he has written journalism for Yahoo! and The San Francisco Chronicle. Detman is a graduate of The University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, and Goddard College, with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.