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name: Robert         Levy
about: ROBERT LEVY is an author of unsettling stories and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist, his work has been called "frank and funny" (Time Magazine), "idiosyncratic and disarming" (The New York Times), "ambitious and clever" (Variety), "smart" (The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction) and "bloody brave" (the UK's SFX Magazine).His first novel, the contemporary dark fairy tale THE GLITTERING WORLD, was published by Gallery/Simon &amp; Schuster and a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award as well as a Lambda Literary Award nominee, and also won an Earphones Award for exceptional audio from Audiofile Magazine. Shorter work has appeared in places like The Magazine of Fantas ROBERT LEVY is an author of unsettling stories and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist, his work has been called "frank and funny" (Time Magazine), "idiosyncratic and disarming" (The New York Times), "ambitious and clever" (Variety), "smart" (The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction) and "bloody brave" (the UK's SFX Magazine).His first novel, the contemporary dark fairy tale THE GLITTERING WORLD, was published by Gallery/Simon &amp; Schuster and a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award as well as a Lambda Literary Award nominee, and also won an Earphones Award for exceptional audio from Audiofile Magazine. Shorter work has appeared in places like The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, Nightmare, Black Static, The Dark, Shadows &amp; Tall Trees, The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and The Best Horror of the Year, among many others. His debut collection NO ONE DIES FROM LOVE: Dark Tales of Loss and Longing will be published by Word Horde in 2023.Robert is a single dad who lives with his children in Brooklyn near a toxic canal, where he is awaiting his mutant powers to develop any day now. He teaches at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. ...more