Rob Halpern

Rob Halpern is the author of Music for Porn and Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World. Together with Robin Tremblay-McGaw, he edited From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, which includes his longer essay on Robert Glück's writing. Rob coordinates The Writers’ Bloc, a poetry writing workshop inside Women's Huron Valley Women’s Prison in Southeast Michigan, where he is Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University. His translations of Georges Perec's early essays on culture & politics will appear with Verso in Fall 2026. He is currently working on a book of essays entitled New Narrative and Other Gay Fictions.

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