Robert Spearman grew up in Hahira, Georgia, fifteen miles north of Valdosta. He attended Lowndes High School in Valdosta and Georgia Christian School in Dasher, Georgia. He has lived the past ten years in China and Southeast Asia and attended Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, China. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and speaks enough Cantonese and Thai to get him in trouble. He is currently working on his second novel, Obadiah: A Ghost's Story, which will be released early in 2017, a sequel to Carnies and Wildcats entitled Escape from Oddities, and a detective series titled, T.H.E. Knight to be published in late 2017
