Robin Behn

Robin Behn is a graduate of Oberlin, University of Missouri, and University of Iowa, she is a professor in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The University of Alabama. Recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the state arts councils of Illinois and Alabama, Robin Behn’s books of poetry include Paper Bird (winner of the AWP Award Series), The Red Hour, Horizon Note (winner of the Brittingham Prize), The Yellow House, and, just out from Plume Editions, Quarry Cross. She is co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach, and editor of a new volume for young writers, Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-first Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing. A musician as well as a writer, she has recently written the libretto for a new opera, “Freedom and Fire: A Civil War Story” and a series of “fiddle tune poems” combining music and words, featured in print and sound on plumepoetry.com and at robinbehn.com.