Robert Alderman

Bio: Robert Alderman holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida. He has published fiction and poetry in The Mailer Review, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Door is a Jar, and various other literary magazines. His poem "Watch for the Patterns, Watch for the Wires" won the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) "Secret" contest in 2015, and was later published in Southeast Missouri State University Press's Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 6. He was a semi-finalist for The Poet's Billow 2013 Atlantis Award. In 2011, he won the Scholarly and Creative Excellence Award in the Fine Arts at the University of South Florida. The same year, he was also the recipient of the Thomas E. Sanders Scholarship in Creative Writing. Finally, while he served 8 years in the U.S. Army, he was never (thankfully) a hero.