Bob Reiss

Bestselling author and journalist Bob Reiss is fascinated by the border between order and anarchy. His nonfiction work has covered trouble spots around the world, including the Amazon, Antarctica, the Arctic, Sudan, and Somalia. His fiction tends to ask “what if” when it comes to big questions facing society. All told, Bob has published twenty-three books of fiction and nonfiction.
Bob is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Oregon. He has taught writing at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Yale University in Singapore, Montclair University, the University of North Carolina MFA program, and on a Coast Guard ship in the Arctic Ocean.