Robert Earl Wildwood

Robert Wildwood enjoys re-programming culture using English code. As a writer of post-apocalyptic or pre-utopian fiction, RW has experience living out of a backpack, building and living in secret shacks, tent squatting, riding freight trains, hitch hiking and oral story telling, building shanty boats and boat motors from junk and living freely on rivers and beaches, using solar power for boat propulsion, building community gardens on abandoned land, constructing rain water capture systems, giving tattoos with needle and stick, repairing clothing with needle and thread, being in a punk band and touring the bible belt in a van with faulty engine wiring and exploding tires, successfully evading the grip of big brother, and surviving to care for loved ones.

In 2014 RW published his first full length graphic novel Hobo Fires, set in the near future when hobos must hack rides on robotic freight trains and learn to survive and find happiness within an accelerating techno culture. In 2016 Robert published his finest fiction to date, a climate change mystery thriller called Generation Snow set in two different galaxies where the stakes are life or death for entire worlds.

Robert Wildwood studied at several local and state universities and most importantly at the Ray Bradbury school of learning anything, the Public Library.

Robert is a long time author at Microcosm Publishing on the subjects of shanty boating, comics, childhood strangeness, mindfulness, punk and queer adventures, sexuality, gender, real life dog stories, transgender parents, and DIY healthcare. The following titles are currently in print at Microcosm Publishing: Alive With Vigor!: Surviving Your Adventurous Lifestyle, Unsinkable: How To Build Plywood Pontoons and Longtail Boat Motors Out Of Scrap, Shut Up & Love the Rain, and Awesome Future.

Robert Wildwood has published works using the pen names Robnoxious, Robert Rowboat, and Robert Earl Sutter III. Robert is a fan of science documentaries, victory gardening, turning lawns into wildflower meadows, watching wild animals be wild, watching domestic animals get wild, and boating with punks. Robert draws inspiration from the largest surface area freshwater lake in the world by living on it's shore in Duluth, Minnesota.