Robert Alderman

Professional Bio

Robert Alderman has taught narrative design and writing courses at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Delaware, and the University of South Florida. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and in December 2021, Robert founded Pulp Hummock Press, a small publishing company focused on sword & sorcery fiction and analog games.

Since that time, Robert's crowdfunding campaigns have amassed over $480,000 in pledges from more than 4,500 generous backers and some have been publicly labeled by Kickstarter's staff as a Project We Love. His books have debuted at #3 on OneBookShelf's Top 100 Bestselling Titles list and consistently become Mithral, Platinum, and Gold Bestsellers, a milestone less than 0.3% of products in the tabletop roleplaying game industry ever achieve. And finally, his trilogy, Gods of the Forbidden North, received the ENNIE Judges' Spotlight Award at GenCon 2024 in Indianapolis. Currently serving as the company's creative director and the lead designer of his latest project, The Overlords of Steel, Robert manages an international team of award-winning writers, artists, cartographers, and layout designers.

From 2018 - 2022, Robert served as the Senior Director of Global Outreach & Curriculum Development at a California-based Catholic educational nonprofit founded by the former president of Gonzaga University, Robert J. Spitzer. In that role, he traveled across the globe throughout North America, Europe, and Asia giving highly-attended lectures to thousands of undergraduate students on the apparent contradiction between science and religion, where he discussed such topics as the implications of the 2003 BGV Theorem, evidence of the fine-tuning of our universe, medical research on near-death experiences (NDEs), the findings of the 1978 Shroud of Turin Research Project, as well as contemporary metaphysical proofs for the intelligibility of an unconditioned reality and its identification with an unrestricted act of thinking. He also completed a week-long training seminar for development directors titled "The Art, the Science, and Technology of Major Gift Fundraising" at Nashville, TN's Institute for Charitable Giving in late 2021.

Robert has published fiction and poetry in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, The Mailer Review, and various other literary magazines. His poem "Watch for the Patterns, Watch for the Wires" won the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) "Secret" contest in 2015, and was later published in Southeast Missouri State University Press's Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 6. He was a semi-finalist for The Poet's Billow 2013 Atlantis Award. In 2011, he won the Scholarly and Creative Excellence Award in the Fine Arts at the University of South Florida. That same year, he was also the recipient of the Thomas E. Sanders Scholarship in Creative Writing.

Finally, Robert served his country honorably for 8 years as an enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army Reserve and Florida Army National Guard.