Robin Behn

Robin Behn (born 1958) is an American poet, and professor at University of Alabama[1] and Vermont College of Fine Arts.[2][3]

She grew up in Barrington, Illinois. She graduated from Oberlin College, the University of Missouri, and University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in Cortland Review,[4] Perihelion,[5] Poetry,[6] and Kenyon Review.[7]

Awards

• 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship[8]
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Works

• Paper Bird. Texas Tech University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-89672-164-7. robin behn.
• The Red Hour, HarperCollins, 1993, ISBN 978-0-06-096952-3
• Horizon Note. University of Wisconsin Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-299-17534-4.
• Naked Writing, DoubleCross Press, 2008
• The Yellow House, Spuyten Duyvil, 2010, ISBN 978-1-933132-76-1

Editor

• The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach. HarperCollins. 1992. ISBN 978-0-06-273024-4. robin behn.
• Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing. University of Alabama Press. 2020. ISBN 978-0817359423.

References

1. "Faculty & Staff : Robin Behn". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
2. "Robin Behn | Vermont College of Fine Arts". Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
3. "Robin Behn". pw.org. 28 May 1981.
4. "Robin Behn, Poetry: Issue 12 - The Cortland Review". www.cortlandreview.com.
5. "Robin Behn Poetry". www.webdelsol.com.
6. "Robin Behn". Poetry Foundation. 30 March 2018.
7. "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on 2008-08-27. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
8. "Robin Behn - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2011-06-29.