Robert James Russell
Robert James Russell (born 1981) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is the author of Sea of Trees (2012). He studied at Michigan State University and Oxford Brookes University, and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Russell is the co-founding editor of Midwestern Gothic, a quarterly literary journal. His fiction and poetry has also appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Collagist, Joyland: A hub for short fiction, Thunderclap! Magazine, Red River Review, LITSNACK, Greatest Lakes Review, and The Legendary.
Sea of Trees has been reviewed favorably by many authors, book reviewers and bloggers, including influential author and blogger L.M. Stull, who wrote "Hold on tight, readers, because the road to answers and the truth is a bumpy one. Russell’s writing is raw, real, and stunningly palpable. A book that will grip your soul, Sea of Trees, will envelope you and hold you until the very end. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece and will surely place Russell on bookshelves across the world for readers to enjoy." Matt Bell, author of Cataclysm Baby wrote that "Russell’s subtle structure puts us readers in danger too, left to recognize ourselves in all the other ghosts hung from those trees, hung lonely together.”
In December 2012, Sea of Trees was nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
Bibliography
- Sea of Trees (Winter Goose Publishing, 2012)