Robert Girardi

Robert Girardi is the author of five novels. His short fiction has been published everywhere from Tri-Quarterly to the Virginia Literary Review, and his non-fiction has appeared in the New Republic and the Washington Post. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and USC Film School, Girardi has received a James Michener Fellowship and is currently the writer-in-residence at Goucher College in Washington, D.C.. Girardi’s Gorgeous East, a sweeping tale of love and redemption, horror and war, follows three French foreign legionnaires from Mont Saint-Michel to Istanbul, from Paris to the desolate Sahara.