Richard Robbins studied as an undergraduate at San Diego State University and as a graduate student at the University of Montana. He has published five books of poems: The Invisible Wedding (1984), Famous Persons We Have Known (2000), The Untested Hand (2008), Radioactive City (2009), and Other Americas (2010). Over the years, he has received various awards and fellowships, including those from The Loft and the McKnight Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board, The Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Poetry Society of America. He currently directs the creative writing program and Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Website: http://english2.mnsu.edu/robbins/

Twitter Username: @rrobbins19

Publications

• Other Americas , Blueroad P (2010)
• Radioactive City , Bellday Books (2009)
• The Untested Hand , The Backwaters P (2008)
• Famous Persons We Have Known , Eastern Washington UP (2000)
• The Invisible Wedding , U of Missouri P (1984)

Awards

• Hawthornden Fellowship (2012)
• McKnight Award of Distinction in Poetry (2000)
• NEA Fellowship (1992)

Employment

• Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato (1984 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from San Diego SU (1975)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from U of Montana (1979)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry