Bob Reiss

[excerpted from author's website]
Bob Reiss is a bestselling New York based author of 24 books, as well as a journalist, a former Chicago Tribune reporter and former correspondent for Outside Magazine. His work has been published in The Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian, Parade, Rolling Stone and other national publications, and has been featured in collections of the best of the Washington Post Magazine, and the best of Outside. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, CNN, Charlie Rose, Al Jazeera and Dan Rather Reports. In 2018 he received a New York Press Club best magazine reporting award for his coverage of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, in Fortune Magazine.

Bob grew up in New York City and graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors degree in Journalism, and from the University of Oregon with an MFA. Bob's journalistic experience began at the age of 19, when he was a copy boy for the Chicago Tribune. "I stole a press pass, made a copy, and put a photo of myself on it. The next summer I got a job in Europe, hitchhiked to Northern Ireland and told the occupying British Troops that I was the Chicago Tribune reporter. I'm not sure why they believed me." Reiss has traveled around the world since then and his experiences in places including Antarctica, Sudan, Somalia, South Africa, Alaska, the Amazon rainforest and numerous other remote locations inform both his fiction and non-fiction. He lives in New York City with television producer Wendy Roth.

He taught fiction writing at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Vermont's Middlebury College for seven years. He has been a writer in residence at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington five times, most recently in 2012, and was a visiting writer at Montclair State University in New Jersey in 2016, 2015 and 2013. He received a Coast Guard Arctic Service Medal for teaching writing on a US icebreaker in the Arctic. In Alaska Bob was the Anchorage Museum Writer in Residence in June 2017. Bob was a visiting writer at Yale-NUS college in Singapore in 2020, teaching writing about science, nature and environment.