Robert Rosenberg's first novel, This Is Not Civilization (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) won the 2005 Maria Thomas Award. It was a Borders Original Voices Selection, a BookSense selection, and a Paperback Row selection in the New York Times Book Review. Rosenberg has been awarded fellowships from the Black Mountain Institute and the Iowa Writers Workshop. His writing and reviews have appeared in Witness, West Branch, the Miami Herald, and the Moscow Times. Rosenberg has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan, has lived and taught in both Istanbul and on the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University.