Robert Scotellaro

Robert Scotellaro is an American writer and poet known for his flash fiction. ^[1]

His flash fiction has appeared in such publications as Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine ^[2] Blink Ink ^[3] and the New Flash Fiction Review. ^[4] Reviews and articles about his work have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle ^[5] and Writer's Digest. ^[6]

Fiction

• From the Book of Atmospheres (Bamboo Dart Press, 2025)
• Breath and Shadow: Six-Sentence Stories (With Meg Pokrass) (MadHat Press, 2024)
• Quick Adjustments (Blue Light Press, 2023)
• God in a Can (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022)
• Ways to Read the World (Scantic Books, 2022)
• What Are the Chances? (Press 53, 2020)
• Nothing Is Ever One Thing (Blue Light Press, 2019)
• Bad Motel (Big Table Publishing, 2016)
• What We Know So Far (Blue Light Press, 2015)
• Measuring the Distance (Blue Light Press, 2012)

Anthology

• New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro, W.W. Norton & Co., 2018)

Poetry

• After the Revolution (White Knuckle Press, 2014)
• The Night Sings A Cappella (Big Table Publishing, 2011)
• Rhapsody of Fallen Objects (Flutter Press, 2010)
• My Father’s Cadillac (Six-Shooter Press, 1984)
• Early Love Poems of Genghis Khan (Lion’s Breath Press, 1979)
• Blinded by Halos (Lion’s Breath Press, 1978)
• East Harlem Poems (Vagabond Press, 1977)

Children's books

• The Terrible Storm (Cricket Books, 2016)
• Snail Stampede and Other Poems (Hands Up Books, 2004)
• Dancing with Frankenstein and Other Limericks (Hands Up Books, 2003)
• Daddy Fixed the Vacuum Cleaner (Willowisp Press, 1993)

Nonfiction

• The Joy of Friendship (Meadowbrook Press, 1996, Distributed by Simon and Schuster)

External links

• Robert Scotellaro, author's official homepage

References

1. 'Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories Around the World', Edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard and Christopher Merrill, W.W. Norton & Company, 261.
2. 'Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine', Vol. 7, No. 1, University of Chester, UK, 16-17
3. 'Blink Ink' , #17, Full of Crow Press, North Bradford, CT, USA, 'Contributors'
4. "Fun House". 11 June 2014.
5. "Writers will keep it short at 'New Micro' event".
6. "Robert Scotellaro: Writing Flash Fiction That's Short But Not Slight".