Robert Lamb, an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina, is the author of three novels, has published poetry in The Georgia Review, and has short stories that have appeared in various magazines. One of his stories (“R.I.P.”) was a winner in the 2009 SC Fiction Project.

A graduate of the University of Georgia, Mr. Lamb spent 20 years in journalism, last at The Atlanta Constitution. At Carolina since 1990, he has taught writing and American literature in the English Department and writing in the School of Journalism and the South Carolina Honors College. He has published freelance articles and reviews in magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times. He is also affiliated with an online literary magazine.

In 1991, Mr. Lamb’s first novel, Striking Out, a coming-of-age story, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His second novel, Atlanta Blues, was launched in Atlanta at the Georgia Center for the Book and was cited in one newspaper’s year-end roundup as “one of the three best novels of 2004 by a Southern Writer—and maybe the best.” The novel was also nominated for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and contended for an Edgar Award. He has also penned the novel, A Majority of One, as well as a collection of short stories and poems, Six of One, Half Dozen of Another (Stories & Poems + 1).