Robert Schirmer
Robert Schirmer\u2019s novel Barrow\u2019s Point won the Gival Press Novel Award and was a finalist for a Foreword INDIES Book Award. He\u2019s also published a collection of short stories titled Living with Strangers (NYU Press), winner of the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers. His stories have appeared in a wide range of literary journals such as Glimmer Train, The Sewanee Review, Epoch, New England Review, Fiction, Byliner, Confrontation, Joyland, and The Best of Witness. Over the years he\u2019s won an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Walter E. Dakin fellowship to the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, and a fellowship from The Chesterfield Writer\u2019s Film Project. His screenplays have been optioned by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Brothers. He\u2019s also been a Visiting Writer at the Southwest Writers Series and at Stetson University as part of the Tim Sullivan Endowment for Writing.