Robert H. Abel

Fiction Writer

Hadley, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
robert.abel@the-spa.com
Website: 
www.roberthabel.com

Author's Bio

I have published six books of fiction, the latest from Asia 2000 in Hong Kong. My Flannery O'Connor Award collection of short stories, "Ghost Traps" has just been reprinted by U. Georgia Press. It is available as a e book. I am currently completing the last novel in what I call "The Beijing Trilogy," based on my years of teaching in China. And I have recently tried my hand at screenplay writing.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Riding a Tiger (Asia, 2000)
,
Ghost Traps (University of Georgia Press, 1991)
Journals:
Colorado Review
,
Dim Sum
,
Glimmer Train
,
Manoa
,
Massachusetts Review
,
Mind's Eye
,
Writers' Forum
Prizes won: 

NEA Creative Writing Award, 1974; Flannery O'Connor Award, 1989; On the Water Fiction Prize, 2007

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin, Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Cuando Era Feliz e Indocumentado by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Inheritance of Loss by Karin Desai

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Seniors, Teachers, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Mentor
Raised in: 
Mentor, OH
Ohio
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Last update: Aug 26, 2016