Robert Houston has published ten novels, including Bisbee ’17, The Nation Thief, The Fourth Codex, and a book of translations of the poems of León Felipe. His nonfiction has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times (for which he reviews regularly), Mother Jones, and elsewhere. He has been a Fulbright professor to Peru, and has been frequently on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf School of English.