McGowan’s fiction and essays are published in several dozen prominent literary journals internationally, including Chautauqua Literary Journal, Connecticut Review, Etchings (Australia), The Louisiana Review, The Savage Kick (UK), and South Dakota Review. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and anthologized.

As an artist, McGowan’s work is in private, corporate, and public collections worldwide, including Bank of America, Bank of Korea, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and has appeared as interior portfolios and on the covers of American Literary Review, BRAND (UK), dotdotdash (Australia) and others. He is the author of Stories from the Art World (Thumbnail Press, 2011), a collection of eight stories with integral images taken from McGowan’s artwork.

McGowan is currently battling cancer caused by his exposure to Agent Orange in the Vietnam conflict. Read his interview about his condition here.

Also read MSP's earlier, extensive interview with Robert McGowan for more information, and download his list of forthcoming titles here.