Robert Morgan Fisher won the 2021 Montana Humor Prize, the 2018 Chester Himes Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the 2019 John Steinbeck Award and Runner-up for the 2021 Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Prize. His fiction and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including The Saturday Evening Post, Whitefish Review, Upstreet, Pleiades, The Colorado Review, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, Storyscape Journal, The Wild Word, The Arkansas Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast, Dime Show Review, 0-Dark-Thirty, Psychopomp, The Seattle Review, The Spry Literary Journal, 34th Parallel, The Journal of Microliterature, Spindrift, The Rumpus, Bluerailroad and many other publications. He’s written for TV, radio and film. Robert holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and is currently on the teaching faculty of Antioch University in several capacities. Since 2016, Robert has led the UCLA Wordcommandos, an acclaimed twice-weekly writing workshop for veterans with PTSD. He often writes companion songs to his short stories. Both his music and fiction have won many awards. He works as a script doctor and teaches Screenwriting, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction in various capacities at Antioch University and UCLA.





  • As a baby, perched on his father’s shoulders, Robert shook hands with John F. Kennedy.

  • Robert’s father, George Fisher, was a career naval aviator who helped pioneer the EA-6B and EF-111. He also served during the Cuban Missile Crisis and spent several tours in Vietnam.

  • Robert’s sister, Laura Fisher-Kaiser, is also a writer who co-authored Weddings for Dummies and The Official eBay Guide.

  • Robert once worked as a correspondent for MTV and VH-1 and, in a single night, wrangled full-length interviews with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash shortly before they became The Highwaymen. It was the first news story ever on VH-1.

  • Robert’s career-military father, George Fisher, always made guitars available to Robert and from a very early age guided his son towards an active appreciation of quality singer/songwriters such as Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen.

  • Robert was once a host on the Movietime Channel, forerunner of E! Entertainment.

  • Robert’s wife, Rebecca, is an award-winning documentarian with over 70 films to her credit and currently the world’s greatest middle school counselor.

  • Robert took a year off from college to work in a Manassas, Virginia, tire factory.

  • As a teenager, Robert spent a summer playing guitar on street corners in Europe for spare change.

  • Robert was one of the first Domino’s Pizza delivery guys at a time when there were less than 200 stores.

  • In junior high, Robert obedience-trained a German Shepherd pup into a 4-H Grand Champion.

  • Robert once spent a year writing political comedy for The Michael Reagan Show.

  • Robert once played the Armadillo World Headquarters Beer Garden in Austin, Texas.
  • Robert produced and hosted the 30th-Anniversary Class Reunion Party for the movie Animal House with the director and several stars in attendance.

  • Robert is an actual Scudder, part of the family tree and everything. This is Laura Scudder in a 1950’s commercial. The Scudders came over around the time of the Mayflower and Nathaniel Scudder signed the Articles of the Confederation and was the only member of the Continental Congress killed in the Revolutionary War and helped found Princeton University.