Bob Wake received his M.A. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Four of his short stories have won first-place writing awards: “The Sacred Grove” (Madison Magazine, 2000), “Knights of Pythagoras” (Wisconsin Academy Review, 2002), “Mudstone” (Wisconsin People & Ideas, 2017), and “Mending Ruth” (Wisconsin People & Ideas, 2024).
In 2018, Bob won the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and, in 2025, took the “Honorable Mention” slot in the same category. (The Wisconsin Writers Awards are now administered by Madison’s Arts + Literature Laboratory.)
His essay on August Derleth, “Walden West and the Twilight of Transcendentalism,” won the Rediscovering Wisconsin Writers Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers in 2004.
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