Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. He has published eight fiction collections, Life in the Temperate Zone, The Decline of Our Neighborhood, The Artist Wears Rough Clothing, HEIBERG'S TWITCH, PETITES SUITES, Intuition of the News, Hsi-wei Tales, and The Thirteenth Studebaker; two books of essays, Professors at Play and THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF SIDNEY FEIN; two short novels, Losses and The Derangement of Jules Torquemal; three books of verse, Fifty Poems, Girl Asleep, and To See What I Have Seen, See What I See; essays, stories, and poems in a variety of scholarly and literary journals, and the novel Zublinka Among Women, awarded the Indie Book Awards first prize for fiction.