Robert Marshall is an American writer, artist, and critic. As a visual artist, they have exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. Marshall's first novel, A Separate Reality, was published in 2006 by Carroll & Graf and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. They are currently at work on a biography of Carlos Castaneda. Their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in Salon, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Event, Blue Lake Review, Ducts, Stickman Review, Public Books, Alembic, Crack the Spine, Blithe House Quarterly, Foliate Oak, and numerous other publications including the anthologies Queer 13 and Afterwords. Marshall began to exhibit in New York City in the early ‘90s. Since then their work has appeared at such venues as the Baxter Street Gallery, Studio 10, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, The Thread Waxing Space, Art in General, White Columns, and the Derek Eller Gallery. A solo exhibition at Participant Inc. in New York City is scheduled for June, 2020. They received the 2016 Hazel Rowley Prize from BIO, the Biographers International Organization, and they are the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Performing Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Banff Centre and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Portrait by Nan Ring
