Robert Rosen, born in Brooklyn, attended Erasmus Hall High School and the City College of New York, where he studied writing with Joseph Heller and Francine du Plessix Gray. Over the course of his career, he's edited erotic magazines, written speeches for the Secretary of the Air Force, and been awarded a Hugo Boss poetry prize. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Mary Lyn Maiscott, a singer-songwriter. They both do freelance editorial work for Vanity Fair.
