Robert Wallace has received a Writers’ Fellowship from the NC Arts Council. He has published over fifty short stories in various journals, including the Bryant Literary Review, the NC Literary Review, and the International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. He is a two-time winner of the Doris Betts’ Fiction Prize. Wallace’s novel, A Hold on Time, was published in 2007 by Paper Journey Press. His short story collection As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea was published by the Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2021. He has done presentations at the International Conference on Sport Literature, The NC Writers’ Conference, and at The International Federation on Aging Conference. He has been critiquing manuscripts for the North Carolina Writers’ Network for the past twenty-five years.