Tablet, December 2007. “An Ode to My Backyard,” The Oxford American, No. 53, Spring 2006. Anthologies (selected) "The Right Imaginary Person," translated as "Tadashii kakuu no hito" in Eigo de yomu Murakami Haruku: sekai no naka no Nihon bungaku, nigatsu-go, 2015, Fujii Hikaru, translator. Tokyo: NHK Publishing, 2015. "The Right Imaginary Person," in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014, Laura Furman, ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2014. “Sean,” in Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, ed. New York: Pushcart Press, 2012. “Sean,” in Freud’s Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings, Elisa Albert, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010. “The Sword, the Light and the Nintendo DS,” with Karen E. Bender, in How To Spell Chanukah: 18 Writers on 8 Nights of Light. Emily Franklin, ed. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007. Articles, reviews, writer interviews (selected) "I Think I Would Rather Be a Painter," The Paris Review Daily, August 10, 2015 "Vermeer in Manhattan," The Paris Review Daily, August 3, 2015 "Enigmatic Interiors: On Love, Death, Divorce, and Michael White’s New Travels in Vermeer,” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2015 "Terayama Shuji's The Crimson Thread of Abandon," Three Percent, May 2015 "Yan Lianke's The Four Books," The Rumpus, April 2015 "Bookforum Talks with Yan Lianke," Bookforum, December 2013. "Bookforum Talks with Karen E. Bender," Bookforum, September 2013. "Bookforum Talks with Peter Trachtenberg," Bookforum, August 2013. “Syllabus: Unfinished Novels,” Bookforum, August 2013. Awards and fellowships 2014 O. Henry Prize ("The Right Imaginary Person") 2013–2014 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Tunghai University, Taiwan 2012 Pushcart Prize ("Sean") 2009–2010 Artist Fellowship Award, North Carolina Arts Council 1992–93 Writing Fellowship, Fine Arts Workcenter at Provincetown 1992 Michener-Engle Fellowship, University of Iowa 1983–85 Mombukagakusho Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Education, Tokyo, Japan References External links Faculty Page Robert Anthony Siegel website Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard University alumni Living people Writers from New York (state) Place of birth missing (living people) Japanese–English translators