Born in Chicago, Robert Rodi still lives in that city, in an ongoing Victorian rehab with his partner Jeffrey Smith and two Shetland sheep-dogs. He has published five novels: Fag Hag, Closet Case, Drag Queen, Kept Boy, and the popular comics industry satire What They Did To Princess Paragon.

Robert wrote comics criticism for years in the pages of The Comics Journal, then jumped to the other side of the fence with a gay-themed story in Vertigo's Heart Throbs 1 with art by Phil Jimenez. Contributions to other Vertigo anthologies followed, including Flinch, Strange Adventures and Weird War Tales, as well as his first miniseries, Four Horsemen.

Robert scripts the creator-owned Vertigo monthly Codename: Knockout, which stars secret agent Angela Devlin and her gay sidekick Go-Go Fiasco. His next novel, Bitch Goddess, is due in early 2002 from Penguin/Plume.