Rob Spillman is the author of acclaimed memoir All Tomorrow’s Parties (Grove Atlantic, 2017) and the editor and co-founder of Tin House, an eighteen-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon) literary magazine. A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, the book has received praise from the New York Times, and starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist.

Spillman is the 2017 recipient of the CLMP Energizer Award for Exceptional Acts of Literary Citizenship, the 2015 winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing, as well as the 2015 VIDO Award from VIDA.  Poets & Writers named him, “One of the most prominent figures in independent publishing.” He is a widely published and praised essayist, with essays, reviews, and criticism appearing in Salon, Guernica, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, the Boston Review, Connoisseur, Details, GQ, Guernica, Nerve, Rolling Stone, Salon, Spin, Sports Illustrated, Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue, among other magazines, newspapers, and essay collections. He also served as the Chair of the 2017 PEN World Voices Curatorial Committee.