Robert F. Sommer has published two novels, Where the Wind Blew and A Great Fullness. His 2018 nonfiction collection from Fomite Press, Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home, which chronicles his son’s deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq as an Army infantryman and return home to civilian life, received the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. Sommer teaches part-time at Avila University in Kansas City and works for the Kansas Sierra Club in support of its mission to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet. He holds a doctorate in American Literature from Duke University and has also authored Teaching Writing to Adults: Strategies and Concepts for Improving Learner Performance and co-authored The Heath Literature for Composition. His blog is Uncommon Hours. He and his wife Heather make their home in Olathe, Kansas.