Robert Anthony Siegel is an American writer and professor. He is the author of two novels and numerous short stories and essays, and has been recognized with O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes among other awards. He currently teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Education A native New Yorker, Siegel was born, raised, and educated on Manhattan. While in high school, he began the study of both Japanese and judo, becoming fluent in the former and a champion in the latter. For his undergraduate education, he attended Harvard University, where he majored in East Asian studies and spent his junior year in Tokyo. He returned to Japan following graduation and studied Comparative Literature at the University of Tokyo on a Mombukagakusho Fellowship. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he received his MFA. The year after that, he was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on a writing fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center. Writing career In 1997, his first novel All the Money in the World was published. This was followed in 2007 by his second, All Will Be Revealed. An essay collection, Criminals, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2018. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, and Tin House, among other venues. Novels All Will Be Revealed, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2008, All the Money in the World, Random House, 1997, Essay collection Criminals, Counterpoint Press, forthcoming in 2017 Short stories (selected) "The Right Imaginary Person,” Tin House, Winter 2012. “What the American Public Wants,” PANK Online, July 2010. “The Memoirs of Edwin Chester,” Ecotone, Fall/Winter 2008. *“Eulogy,” Five Chapters, Summer 2007. “Verena Swann,” Ecotone, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2006. “The Magic Box,” Post Road 11, Fall 2005. “Moving Through the Dark,” Story, Summer 1992. Essays (selected) "Criminals," The Paris Review "Gourmets," Tin House, Fall 2014. "My Mother, My Writing Student," The New York Times Draft Column, June 21, 2014. Reprinted in the print edition, June 22, 2014. "Unreliable Tour Guide," Ploughshares, Winter 2013. “Kawabata Yasunari: The Breeze in the Ink Painting,” Ploughshares, Fall 2013. "Three Notes on Jesus' Son," Treehouse, May 2012. “Sean,” Harvard Review 38, Spring/Summer 2010. “Haiku for an Ailing Father,” Los Angeles Times Book Review: Off the Shelf, July 2009. “The Sword, the Light and the Nintendo DS,” with Karen E. Bender,