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WRITING CONFERENCE

Rob Spillman was the editor of Tin House from 1999-2019, is the recipient of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing, the Vido Award, presented by VIDA, Women in Literary Arts, and the CLMP Energizer Award for Acts of Outstanding Literary Citizenship. His writing has appeared in BookForum, the Boston Review, Connoisseur, Details, GQ, Guernica, Nerve, the New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue, among other magazines, newspapers, and essay collections. He has been a judge for the Story Prize, the Orion Prize, the Vilcek Prize, among numerous other awards and fellowships. He has guest taught at writing workshops and universities around the world, including Queensland University in Brisbane, the Farafina Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria, the SLS Workshops in St. Petersburg, Russia and Nairobi, Kenya, the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile, the Universities of Florida, Houston, Kansas, New York, Rutgers, the Colleges of Bennington, Brooklyn, Amherst, Williams, Grinnell, Luther, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His memoir, All Tomorrow’s Parties, was published by Grove Press.