Robert L. Giron established Gival Press, the award-winning independent literary press in 1998, which has published over 100 titles (print/ebook) of fiction and poetry by both emerging and established authors. He is the editor of the ejournal ArLiJo, was the founding editor of The Sligo Journal, and is an associate editor of Potomac Review. He has written five collections of poetry, has co-edited an award-winning collection on women’s studies and has edited two award-winning anthologies of poetry, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, the most recent; the collection The Best of Gival Press Short Stories recently won the Great Midwest Book Festival Award for anthologies and the 2015 Foreword Reviews' Silver Award —The Indiefab Book of the Year Award for Anthologies. A resident of Arlington, Virginia, he is a professor emeritus of Montgomery College in Maryland, where he taught English as well as creative writing.  

Website: http://www.robertgiron.com

Twitter Username: @givalpress

Publications

• The Best of Gival Press Short Stories (editor) , Gival Press (July 2015)
• Poetic Voices Without Borders I and II (editor) , Gival Press (2009)
• The Sligo Journal (editor) , Montgomery College (2016)

Awards

• 2015 Foreword Reviews' Silver Award —The Indiefab Book of the Year Award for Anthologies(2015)
• 2015 Great Midwest Book Festival Award for Compilations/Anthologies(2015)
• 1st Place Best Regional Magazine-Eastern Division (Community College Humanities Association(2016)

Employment

• Professor Emeritus of English / ESL / Creative Writing at Montgomery College (August 1986 - September 2018)
• Editor-in-Chief / Publisher at Gival Press (May 1998 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Linguisitics / Creative Writing from U. T. El Paso (December 1973)
• Master of Fine Arts in Teaching English/ESL from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (August 1975)
• Certificate in Literature / Humanities from University of Cambridge-UK (July 1998)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry