Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership

Robin Hemley http://robinhemley.com/ is the Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa and has taught creative writing in workshops and at conferences around the world. He is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including his latest Do-Over! in which a 48-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom and other embarrassments from Hachette.  Robin has won many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the George Garrett Award for Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from The Chicago Tribune, Story Magazine’s Humour Award, the Independent Press Book Award for Nonfiction, an Editor’s Choice Award from The American Library Association, and a number of others.  His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and many of the best literary magazines in the U.S.  His work has also been published in Great Britain, Japan, Germany, and The Philippines.  He writes a column, “Dispatches from Manila,” on the Mcsweeney’s literary magazine blog (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/manila/1dispatch6.html).