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Robert Wood Lynn (he/him) is a poet from Virginia. His debut collection of poems, Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022), won the 2021 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and was named a Best Poetry Book of 2022 by the New York Times and a Best Book for Adults by the New York Public Library. Lynn is also author of the chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact (Button Poetry, 2023).

His poems have been published in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and other publications, and have been anthologized in the Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia (Texas Review Press, 2022).

A finalist for the 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Lynn has received support from fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Merrill House, New York University, and other institutions.

He earned a BA from the University of Mary Washington, a JD from the University of Virginia, and an MFA from New York University, where he taught undergraduate creative writing. With Janelle Tan, he cohosts the DGN Reading Series in Brooklyn, New York. Lynn lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and New York City.