Gordon Bennett, who writes mainstream, mystery, and speculative fiction under the pen-name Isak Romun, is primarily a short-story writer whose credits include Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Mystery Monthly, Espionage Magazine, The New Black Mask, St. Anthony Messenger, the Danish magazine Sondags, CUBE Literary Magazine, and other periodicals and journals. His fiction has been included in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Asimov, and Mystery Writers of America anthologies as well as in high school and college texts. His story, "The Enjoyment of an Artist," has been recorded by Arte Johnson on audio cassette (Dove Books on Tape, Inc.).
     Bennett has been listed several times on the Honor Roll of the Yearbook of the Mystery and Suspense Story. He is a winner in the NEA/PEN American Syndicated Fiction Project for his story, "Lully's Baton." In conjunction with this award, his winning entry was published in Sunday supplements of the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. His story, "Eagles," was a winner in the Catholic Press Association Short Story Competition. He has served as a short-story judge for the Edgar Awards of the Mystery Writers of America and, locally, as a short-story judge for college writers' conferences.
      Bennett has written articles on Civil War history which have appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated, Soldiers (the magazine of the US Army), The New York Times, and other magazines and newspapers. He has written articles on management, training and education, and problem solving which have appeared in various professional journals. He is a member and past Board Member of The Virginia Writers' Club, Inc. (past President).
      The author believes that a good deal of his fiction and nonfiction ideas come from his government service — and they should considering that he has spent over 43 years in Federal service, both in uniform and in civvies. For most of his career in the Army he was a paratrooper serving, primarily, in the Infantry and the Quartermaster Corps. Later, as a civilian, he worked as a supervisory education specialist with assignments that featured lots of writing.