Robert Flanagan was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. A graduate of the University of Toledo and the University of Chicago, he taught at Ohio Wesleyan University where he directed the creative writing program. Flanagan has published the novel Maggot, three collections of short stories, five chapbooks of poetry, as well as essays and reviews. He has had two stage plays produced professionally and two screenplays produced as independent films. He and his wife Katy live in Delaware, Ohio, where they raised their two daughters, Anne and Nora.
