I was raised in Lexington, Mass and have lived in Cambridge, Mass for many years. My wife, Maja Maciak, immigrated from Poland in 2008; between us we have four children. Since graduating from Harvard College with a degree in biological anthropology, I have worked as a technical writer in the IT industry.

I started writing stories around age eight. Ann Beattie has been my writing mentor and guide for a very long time, for which I am profoundly grateful.

I have three commercially published books: the story collection The Light of Home (Atheneum) and my novels Tree of Heaven and The Soldier (Soho Press). Following a lengthy interruption in my writing career I began a renewed effort to write and be read, leading to the publication of Swift River in 2014, Tree of Heaven (author’s edition) in 2015, Native Child in 2016, and The Vanished in 2018.

What You Can’t Give Me is the first entirely new fiction I’ve written in almost 20 years. If you’re wondering how that happened, read my essay.

I would love to hear from you! Please email me at rcbinstockbooks@gmail.com. You can follow me on Twitter @rcbinstock.