Robert G. Ferrell was born in Houston, Texas, USA, in 1957. He holds a B.S. in Biology, most of an M.S. in Avian Ecology, and has drifted in and out of graduate programs in Pre-Biotic Chemistry and Medicine.
He has been writing for publication since the late 1970’s, garnering recognition for technical writing, fiction, poetry, and humor. He was a finalist for the Robert Benchley Society Humor Writing Award in 2011 and a semifinalist in 2012. Robert has been published in three humor anthologies: “My Funny Valentine,” “My Funny Major Medical,” and “Open Doors: Fractured Fairy Tales.” He was also a finalist for the 2012 Atlanta Review Poetry Competition, and “404,” part one of his humorous memoir, was a finalist in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. His science fiction short story “Mousetrap” was published online in 2013 by Bad Dream Entertainment and in a print anthology. He has been a popular columnist for ;login: magazine since 2006.
Robert lives with his wife Adrienne and roughly two cats in rural Wilson County, Texas. When not writing, Robert can be found engaged in ham radio pursuits, playing and recording music, reproducing medieval calligraphy and illumination, or doing the gob-smack in his pool.