Russ Franklin has degrees in math, physics, and literature, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, as well as a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. His work has appeared in Oxford American, Alaska Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review and other publications. He currently teaches writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
"""Russ Franklin's Cosmic Hotel is a smart, provocative novel of breathtaking originality that renders a veritable Unified Field Theory of family, the American Dream, and the wide, pulsing Cosmos. Franklin is a remarkable new literary voice."" -Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"