In Episode 9, we are back from a fall hiatus with our professor Robert Lopez (of Stony Brook University), author of eight books and numerous pieces in literary journals & magazines. Robert shares his unconventional path to becoming a writer (without having read a full book 'till his 20s!), his thoughts on voice & form, how playing music impacts his fiction, and how teaching has allowed him to build a comfortable writing life for himself.

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Robert Lopez is the author of seven novels and one non-fiction book (listed below with links to purchase). His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in dozens of publications, including Bomb, The Threepenny Review, Vice Magazine, New England Review, The Sun, and the Norton Anthology of Sudden Fiction – Latino. He teaches at Stony Brook University and has previously taught at Columbia University, The New School, Pratt Institute, and Syracuse University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Robert's Books

• The Best People (novel, 2025)
• Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure (nonfiction, 2023)
• A Better Class Of People (novel-in-stories, 2022)
• All Black Full (novel, 2017)
• Good People (novel-in-stories, 2016)
• Asunder (stories, 2010)
• Kamby Bolongo Mean River (novel, 2009)
• Part of the World (novel, 2007)

For more of Robert's work visit his website: www.robertlopez.net

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