Robert Masterson

Robert Masterson, English professor with CUNY-BMCC in New York City, has authored Garnish Trouble, Artificial Rats & Electric Cats, and Trial by Water. First published in 1978, his creative writing, literary criticism, photography, and journalism has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers, galleries, and journals. Masterson holds degrees from the University of New Mexico; the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics; and Shaanxi Normal University. Masterson's work has taken him to Ukraine, Japan, India, inside men's and women's prisons in the United States as an instructor and mentor, and to nuclear reactor stations in Brookhaven, New York; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania; and Chernobyl, Ukraine as an observer and reporter.