Robert Rue is a fiction writer and journalist and a nationally known teacher of creative writing at the high school level. He currently teaches at The Calhoun School in New York City. For fifteen years, he worked at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware where he designed and supervised the creative writing curriculum. He was the founding editor of The National Andrean, a literary journal for high school writers that, over a number of years, showcased the best student poets and fiction writers in the United States. His own fiction earned him a fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts, and he is currently working (and working and working) to complete his first collection of short stories. Rue has also written irreverent film and television reviews for PopMatters.com.

Rue's experience in high school education extends well beyond creative writing. He has taught and developed English curriculum in grades 9-12 and has designed a cultural studies course centering on gender issues in popular film. He has a BA from Haverford College and an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English. Rue supervised a dorm for fourteen of his fifteen years at St. Andrew's, and he was also a successful coach at the varsity level. He left St. Andrew's as the school's all-time winningest coach in boys' basketball and girls' soccer. He directed his basketball teams to seven consecutive state tournament appearances and coached the state of Delaware's first McDonald's All-American, Eric Boateng, currently of Duke University.

Rue's students have gone on to study at some of the premier colleges and universities in the country, including Harvard, Yale, Haverford, Williams, Middlebury, and Princeton, and many have chosen careers in writing. His former students have written for The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, Food and Wine, Elle, and literary and academic journals across the country.