R.W.W. Greene ("Rob") is the author of the critically acclaimed space opera The Light Years (Angry Robot Books, 2020), which explores poverty, moral choices, and emotionally resonant characters within sophisticated world-building. His subsequent novels include Twenty-Five to Life (Angry Robot Books, 2021), a near-future Earth story about finding meaning in a declining society, and the First Planets duology—Mercury Rising (Angry Robot Books, 2022) and Earth Retrograde (Angry Robot Books, 2023)—which explores an alternate 1970s where early space colonization meets alien invasion.
His short fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Stupefying Stories, New Myths, and Jersey Devil Press. His story "Nothing Between the Stars" was included on the 2017 Nebula Reading List, and "Midnight Plus Thirty" received a Pushcart Prize nomination. His short works appear in collections including Something Wicked Anthology of Speculative Fiction, Volume Two, the 2017 Young Explorer's Adventure Guide, and Passages: Best of NewMyths Anthology, Volume I.
Greene holds an MFA in Fiction Writing and transitioned from print journalism (eleven years) and high-school teaching (twelve years) to focus primarily on writing in 2018, while maintaining a position as a language-arts adjunct professor. He's a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a regular panelist at Boskone, and has served on the board of the New Hampshire Writers' Project.
When not crafting narratives that blend nostalgia with futurism, Greene collects and writes on manual typewriters (including an Olympia SG-1, Olympia SM-9, Olivetti Lettera 32, and Hermes Rocket), keeps bees, and lives in New Hampshire with his spouse, writer and artist Brenda Noiseux, and their cat Jack,