Robert Casella

Robert "Bob" Casella is an American writer whose only book-length publication to date is the novel Don't Sing Aloha When I Go (JEF Books, 2012), issued as Journal of Experimental Fiction 49.

Casella entered the JEF orbit roughly a decade before that book, as a contributor to The Laugh that Laughs at the Laugh: Writing from and about the Pen Man, Raymond Federman (JEF 23, iUniverse, 2002), the press's tribute anthology to the French-American novelist and Holocaust survivor Raymond Federman, who died in 2009. Casella's contribution to that volume grew out of his own correspondence with Federman, and the later JEF novel grew in turn out of editor Eckhard Gerdes's wish, expressed years afterward, to see more of his work in print.

Gerdes's editorial note for the novel is the most biographical primary source on Casella that exists: he describes the book as work that "resonates with subtle humor and acute observations," carrying a touch of Federman without imitating him, and finally as something "uniquely Casella." Outside JEF, the only located short-fiction credit is Casella's appearance in Keyhole magazine issue 10 (Keyhole Press, 2010), in an issue that also ran Leni Zumas, Mike Young, Tom Whalen, Ben Loory, Chris Bachelder, and James Tadd Adcox.

Beyond these two credits Casella has left almost no public record: no personal site, no confirmed social accounts, no published author photo. Start with Don't Sing Aloha When I Go, which is, for now, the whole of his published book-length work.