Tobias Roberts was born in Rome, Italy in 1953. After returning to America for college, he graduated with a BA in History and Latin from Dickinson College and received a Masters in Classics in 1980. He taught Latin and History at Ohio State University until he decided to retire from academia and devote all his attention to his writing. An accomplished poet, his collection The Formality of the Page was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. The Revisionist is his first novel. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
