Robert Runté is Senior Editor with EssentialEdits.ca and freelances as SFeditor.ca. A former professor, he has won three Aurora Awards for his literary criticism, is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Shadowpaw Press, an editor with Donovan St Press, and reviews for the Ottawa Review of Books.
For nearly a decade he was Senior Editor with Five Rivers Publishing, a small Canadian press where he edited primarily speculative fiction. In 2018, he inherited the incomplete manuscripts of the late, great Canadian author, Dave Duncan, to finish and publish. The first two of these posthumous works, The Traitor’s Son and Corridor to Nightmare, were released in 2024.
Robert’s own short fiction has been published over 100 times, and several of his short stories have been reprinted in “best of” collections, and one was shortlisted for an Aurora.