Bio

Robert J. Howe has published short fiction in Salon.com, the magazines Analog, The Flatbush Review, Electric Velocipede, Black Gate, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pandora, Pulphouse, Tales of the Unanticipated, Weird Tales, the Russian science fiction magazine Esli (If), and the anthologies Newer York and Happily Ever After, among other publications. He is the editor, with John Ordover, of the anthology Coney Island Wonder Stories.

His poetry chapbook, Ghost Ship, was published by Bottlecap Press in June 2024. His poetry has also appeared in Tampa Review, The California Quarterly, 50 Haiku, Punch Drunk Press, Serving House Journal, the Loch Raven Review, and other publications.

He is a graduate of Brooklyn College, B.A., journalism and history; Clarion Writer’s Workshop at Michigan State University; and Fairfield University, M.F.A., fiction and poetry.

Howe has served in the U.S. Coast Guard and was a civilian merchant seaman with the Military Sealift Command. He currently works in communications and media relations in higher education. He lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with his wife, Photographer Eleanor Lang, and two cats who contribute nothing to the household income. He is a two-finger typist.