Robert M. Detman has published fiction in the Antioch Review, Akashic Books, Santa Monica Review and numerous other journals. His story collection, The Survivor's Guide, was a semifinalist for the 2013 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press. His short stories were selected on two occasions as finalists for the New LettersLiterary Awards, and a novel excerpt awarded him fellowship for the Abroad Writers Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has written reviews for Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Southeast Review, Trop Magazine, and the Romania Literara Foundation Journal, as well as journalism for Yahoo! and TheSan Francisco Chronicle. A graduate of The University of Michigan, he has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College.