Robert L. Shuster's novel To Zenzi won the 2019 AWP Prize for the Novel, and also received a James Jones First Novel Fellowship.

His short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Witness, The Mississippi Review, Stone Canoe, and War, Literature, & the Arts (among other publications), and in Micro Fiction (W.W. Norton) and Yellow Silk II (Warner Books). For a number of years, he wrote arts and culture pieces for The Village Voice. Raised in upstate New York and Massachusetts, and a graduate of M.I.T., he lives in Westchester County, NY.