Robert Garner McBrearty has received a Pushcart Prize, a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, and fellowships to MacDowell and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he is the author of five books of fiction including the short story collections A Night at the Y, Let the Birds Drink in Peace, When I Can’t Sleep, and the novella The Western Lonesome Society.
His short stories have appeared in over one hundred literary magazines and anthologies including The Pushcart Prize, The Missouri Review, Narrative Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, New England Review and North American Review. His stories have frequently been performed at Stories on Stage in Denver and at the Arts and Letters Show at the Dallas Museum of Art.
He has taught writing courses for many years, most recently at the University of Colorado.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he now lives in Colorado with his family. His new collection of short stories is forthcoming in University of New Mexico Press.
