Paul Rome is a writer and coffee shop manager. He has written for The Huffington Post, PEN America, The Minetta Review and Mercer Street. His first novel, entitled We All Sleep in the Same Room, was nominated for the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham award for debut fiction. The novel has been hailed by Electric Literature as "a New York novel... all the more memorable for its originality," and by HTML Giant as "a powerful debut by a writer who has almost preternaturally insightful things to say about all that is. ...A cultivated style that is beautiful in its understated elegance."
