Robert Temple

Fiction Writer

Talking Rock, GA

Georgia US

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Author's Bio

Born in Alaska in 1952, Robert Temple grew up a military brat across the United States. After a three-year hitch in the 82nd Airborne, he received a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida and an M.A. in English from Florida State University and then taught creative writing, composition, and literature at several Florida colleges. While teaching, he and his wife also raised and bred Suri alpacas for eighteen years. Throughout his teaching career, Robert kept writing, publishing the novel The Strange Courtship of Kathleen O'Dwyer and numerous short stories, winning several awards for fiction. Today, he and his wife, Sheila, reside in Talking Rock, Georgia in the Appalachian Mountains.

Education:

Florida State University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:

The Strange Courtship of Kathleen O'Dwyer (Five Star Publishing, 2022)

Prizes won:

1991 Florida State Writing Competition, Florida Freelance Writers Association, 1st Place Adult Short Stories--Literary, "Up the Hill, and Down the Hill and Back Again"

1991 Florida State Writing Competition, Florida Freelance Writers Association, 1st Honorable Mention Adult Short Stories--Literary, "The Gold Mercedes"

1994 Florida State Writing Competition, Florida Freelance Writers Association, 1st Place Novel Chapters, "The Atrocity" from NCOs

2012 Writers-Editors Network International Writing Competition, 1st Honorable Mention Fiction--Short Story, "The Wolf-Gray War Bonnet

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner, Rosemary Sutcliff, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur C. Clarke, J.R.R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov

What I'm reading now:

The First Frontier by Scott Weidensaul

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Fort Greely, AK

Alaska

Raised in:

various

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Last update: Aug 03, 2023