Robert E. Browne is a retired Chief petty officer of the United States Navy who served his country well in time of peace and war.

 He and his wife, Adelita, live in Winfield Missouri, USA where their three children grew up and now have families of their own. Their youngest son, Daniel, is a petty officer in the Navy also and served in the Desert Storm war.

 Chief Browne's Irish descent and exploits in the Navy during the Vietnam war serve him well as a writer of poetic short stories and poems. Numerous life and death circumstances have made him more aware of his mortality and may, in part, account for the sharp perception and imaginative writing abilities evident in his literary works.

 Bob believes that for a poem or story to be successful, it must stir the emotions within. Hopefully several. Bob has won several literary awards for his stories but his goal, before retiring to that great dry dock in the sky, is to publish a hard back book of his works.