Robert L. Nelis

Robert L. Nelis began his writing career as he commuted to and from his job as a municipal official in Chicago suburbs, creating characters and laying out posts as he drove and sketching them out later. Now retired, he enjoys having time to write the stories he planned over his twenty-five years of commuting.

Robert has a Masters degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he also served as adjunct faculty. He lives with his wife of forty-one years in a 110-year-old house in Chicago where they raised their three children. Robert and his wife have four grandchildren, all of whom they love to spoil.

Robert published a short story, "Bank Services", in Cleaver Magazine and just finished his first novel, "Northdale".

On November 11, 2017 published a short story, "Fighting With All Wapons" in As You Were: The Military Review, Vol 7.