Richard Robbins

Richard Robbins is the author of several collections of poetry, including Body Turn to Rain: New & Selected Poems (Lynx House Press, 2017), Other Americas (Blueroad Press, 2010), and Radioactive City (Bellday Books, 2009). He grew up in Southern California and Montana and earned his MFA from the University of Montana. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including the Nation, the Paris Review, and Crazyhorse.

Robbins has received awards from the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America, among other organizations. From 1984-2021, he taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he directed the creative writing program and the university’s Good Thunder Reading Series.