With more than sixty stories and three novellas in print and online journals, Robert Earle is one of the more widely published short fiction writers in America. He also is the author of two novels (The Way Home and The Man Clothed in Linen) and two books of nonfiction (Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq and Identities in North America: Search for Community (with John Wirth). Robert Earle has degrees in literature and writing from Princeton and Johns Hopkins and was a diplomat for twenty-five years.