Robert H. Abel, 27 Stockwell Rd., N. Hadley, MA 01035-9644
Tel: (413)-584-6257; fax account (413)-549-6401. e mail: robert.abel@the-spa.com
Fiction writer, writing teacher and journalist.
Publications:
Books: Riding a Tiger (novel, Asia 2000, Hong Kong, 1998); Ghost Traps (stories, U. Georgia Press, 1991); Full-tilt Boogie (stories, sponsored by Massachusetts Council on Arts and Humanities in cooperation with Lynx House Press, 1989); The Progress of a Fire (novel, Simon and Schuster, 1985); Freedom Dues, (novel, Dial Press, 1978); Skin and Bones (stories, U. Colorado Press, 1978);
Most recent stories: "A Steamy Story," www.longstoryshort.com (April 2006); "The Vulgair Connection," forthcoming, North American Review; "Surveying the Other," Full Circle Journal (Oct. 2003). www.fullcirclejrnl.com ;"Soft Targets," Massachusetts Review (Fall 2003);"I Married a Monster and We Had Kids," Willow Springs #47 (Jan. 2001);"Woman Walking Backwards," Dim Sum #3 (May 2000);"Appendix Seven,", The Mind's Eye, Fall, 1999; "Mr. Nice Guy,” Clackamas Review (Spring 2000); “Appendix Seven,” The Mind’s Eye (Fall 1999); “Song of Heartbreak and Longing,” Willow Springs (Jan. 1997); “A Visit from the Man in the Gray Suit,” Steelhead Special (Summer 1996); “One Up,” in Robert Byrne, Ed., Byrne’s Book of Great Pool Stories (Harvest Books, 1995); “Appetizer,” in several anthologies, including, Hanna and Cockerton, Eds., The Human Project, Prentice-Hall, Canada, 1996); “Men” in E. Goodwin et al., eds., This Wood Sang Out (Literacy Project, 1995); “The Loyal Wife,” Manoa (1995); “Gong Li Haunts My Dreams,” English Salon (Beijing, 1994); “X,” GlimmerTrain IX (Spring 1994) . . . . More than twenty other stories were published in previous years.
Most recent journalism: "Thrown a Learning Curve" Hampshire Life (Feb. 18,2000); "Back to Beijing," Hampshire Life (July 2, 1998); "Hong Kong Jitters," Hampshire Life (March 1998); a regular column appears in English Salon, a magazine published at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China. Features have also appeared in University of Massachusetts' Massachusetts Magazine.
Special Awards:
Nominated for Pushcart Prize “Best of the Small Presses” for two stories in 1994; Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, 1989 (for Ghost Traps, above); publication of Full-tilt Boogie sponsored by Mass. Council on Arts,(1989); Second Prize, O. Henry Festival Contest, 1987; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1978.
Teaching Experience:
Gave lectures and a reading, taught workshops for Union Institute and University/Vermont College MFA Program, Dec. 2005-June 2006. Wrote lesson plans for the US Information Service’s Project ELLSA, (http://www.rdlthai.com/ellsa_index.html) and gave lectures and workshops in four S. E. Asian countries on special topics in American literature and the characteristics of literary English (Summer-Fall 1999). Mount Holyoke College, visiting prof. of creative writing, Fall, 1998; Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sept.-Jan., 1997, Feb.-June, 1994; Trinity College, Hartford, visiting writer, 1994-1997; Beijing Normal University, Feb.-July, 1987.
I have also taught in several Oregon Writers Workshops, Elderhostel programs, and continuing education programs at the University of Massachusetts, among others.
I have also worked as a journalist in different venues, as the fiction editor for Lynx House Press in the 1970s, and as an editorial consultant for Asia 2000 (Hong Kong) in recent months.
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