Masterson, Robert

Nominations:

A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press), Anthology, 2018

BIO: Robert Masterson, English professor with CUNY-BMCC in New York City, has authored Garnish Trouble, Artificial Rats & Electric Cats, and Trial by Water. First published in 1978, his creative writing, literary criticism, photography, and journalism has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers, galleries, and journals. Masterson holds degrees from the University of New Mexico; the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics; and Shaanxi Normal University. Masterson’s work has taken him to Ukraine, Japan, India, inside men’s and women’s prisons in the United States as an instructor and mentor, and into nuclear power stations as an observer and reporter.