A graduate of Florida State University, Robert Gwaltney resides in Atlanta, Georgia. By day, he serves as vice president of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., a non-profit organization that strengthens children and their families during the most critical times in their development. Through his non-profit work, he is a champion for early childhood literacy. Robert is an active member of the Atlanta literary community and previously served as fiction editor for the Blue Mountain Review. Currently he serves on the board of the Broadleaf Writers Association. In all the hours between, he writes. His writing has appeared in Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Signal Mountain Review, Works in Progress: An Anthology, and Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. He is also recipient of the Fall 2022 Pat Conroy Writer's Residency. The Cicada Tree, winner of the Somerset Award for Literary Fiction, is his debut novel.
