Rob is a disabled bakla poet and playwright. He is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025), winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award and longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). A 2026 Creative Capital, 2025 National Endowment for the Arts, and 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow, his work appears in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, and Poets.org, among others, and has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Lambda Literary, Sewanee, and Kenyon Review. The managing poetry editor at Foglifter, he received an MFA in poetry and critical disability studies from the New Writers Project at UT Austin.