Robin Behn

Robin Behn grew up in Barrington, Illinois. She studied at Oberlin College, the University of Missouri, and the University of Iowa. She is the author of several books of poems, including Quarry Cross (2018), The Yellow House (2011), Horizon Note (2001), and The Red Hour (1993). She is the editor of Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing (2018) and coeditor, with Chase Twichell, of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (1992). Behn’s honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also a musician and has collaborated with choreographers and visual artists. She teaches in the MFA Program in creative writing at the University of Alabama and lives in Birmingham.