Robert P. Baird is a writer living in Chicago. He has writ­ten about lit­er­a­ture and pol­i­tics for Slate, Book­fo­rum, the Chicago Tri­bune, Chicago Mag­a­zine, and other pub­li­ca­tions. (Click here for a cur­rent list.) He is a doc­toral can­di­date at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago and an editor-at-large for Chicago Review. He main­tains a blog-​like entity here and a port­fo­lio of pho­tographs here.

Con­tact him at rpb@digitalemunction.com.