Robert Westfield (born 1972) is an American writer, who won two Lambda Literary Awards in 2007 for his debut novel Suspension.^[1] The novel, published in 2006 by Harper Perennial,^[2] was nominated for and won Lambdas in the categories of Gay Fiction and Gay Debut Fiction.^[1]

Born in 1972 in Maryland, Westfield attended Columbia University in New York City, earning a degree in Theatre and English,^[3] and winning several student awards for his writing. He has also written several plays, including A Wedding Album, The Pennington Plot, A Tulip Economy and A Home Without, as well as acting as cowriter and dramaturg for plays by Marc Wolf, including Blessed Plot and Another American: Asking and Telling.^[4] His second novel, tentatively titled The Sightseers, has not yet been published.