Robert Earle’s short fiction has appeared in more than 100 literary journals, including Mississippi Review, Quarterly West, 34th Parallel, The Common, The MacGuffin, The Brooklyner, and now, of course, pif. His new collection of short stories, Imagining Women, will be published by Vine Leaves Press in 2017. His novels include Suffer the Children, In the Blood of Herod and Rome, and The Way Home. His nonfiction account of a year in Iraq is Nights in the Pink Motel. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.