Robert Arellano is the author of seven novels, among them Sunshine ’69, the web’s first interactive novel, and Havana Libre: a Cuban Noir (Akashic Books, 2017). Havana Lunar was a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Award. His stories have been selected for major anthologies from Akashic and SUNY Press, and essays have been featured in dozens of literary and trade publications including The Village Voice, Tin House, The Believer, The Rumpus, and Metal Hammer. He has taught more than 100 undergraduate and graduate courses on writing and the humanities at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Southern Oregon University, and University of New Mexico. The Oregon Book Awards awarded him the Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction, and the Rockefeller Foundation selected him for the Bellagio Center Arts & Literary Arts Fellowship. For eight years, he has served on the Board of Directors for Oregon Humanities, the state branch of the NEH, most recently as Board Chair.
Robert Arellano 