His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the Evil Companions Award. His play Tongues won the John Gassner Prize.

His cyberpunk novel Virtual Death (published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) was a finalist for the Philip K.

His nonfiction: The Half-Known World, a book on the craft of writing, and What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, a book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). His other story collections: Living to Be 100 and Dancing in the Movies. His novels: Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, and Crooked Hearts. By keeping the number of participants small, we are able to offer an experience that is both intimate and affordable, all while maintaining our commitment to be the premier writers conference in the West.Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books, including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a story collection with Graywolf Press, in April 2009. Participants get the chance to hone their craft in the classroom with distinguished writers, sharing dialogue during classes, readings, and other events. The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference brings writers of all levels together for four exhilarating days in sunny Arizona. He and his family live in Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Boswell teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. He is married to the writer, Antonya Nelson, and they have two children, Jade and Noah. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Esquire, Colorado Review, and many other magazines. He has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, the John Gassner Prize for Playwriting, and the Evil Companions Award. He is the author of six novels (including Century’s Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts), three story collections, a play, a cyberpunk novel, and two nonfiction books (one about writing craft, The Half-Known World, and one about a treasure hunt, What Men Call Treasure). Robert Boswell’s collection of stories The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards was published by Graywolf in May of 2009. Robert Boswell reading 'Smoke' from 'The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards' at the Arizona State University 'Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference.'

Century's Son by Robert Boswell