Travis D. Roberson is a New York based writer & artist originally from Central Florida.

A Porter Fleming Literary Competition winner, Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, his writing appears or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Pithead Chapel, Cutleaf, Juked, Maudlin House, and many other publications. His fiction imbues the speculative and surreal, coupled with a distinct examination of human emotion, while his non-fiction writing tends to examine interpersonal relationships through the lens of art and music. A full list of published works and accolades is viewable here.

When it comes to his artwork, Travis primarily works with watercolors and spray paint, often blending the two mediums to create works nestled somewhere between the cartoonish and surreal. His paintings appear in journals such as Radar Poetry, Pithead Chapel, and Porter House Review. Peep them here.

Travis spent his youth reading comic books and throwing rocks at snakes. He devoted his late teens to Orlando’s punk scene before leaving the sunshine state to bounce around the world as a flight attendant at a major airline. Now settled in Queens, NY, he lives with his wife and a dog that wakes him up far too early every morning.

When he’s not writing or painting he spends most of his time yammering about The Clash and Jim Jarmusch to anyone pretending to listen.