Robert Hill Long is the author of five books of poems and flash fiction/prose poems. He taught creative writing for 20 years, and now is a research administrator at the University of Oregon. His work has appeared in many journals since the 1973, and has been anthologized in Deer Drink the Moon, Birds in the Hand, Best American Poetry, and Flash Fiction.

The Kilim Dreaming (Bear Star Press, 2010), The Effigies (Plinth Books, 1998), The Work of the Bow (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1997), The Power to Die (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1987)

Birds in the Hand (Knopf, 2004), Best American Poetry (Scribner, 1995), Flash Fiction (W. W. Norton & Company, 1992)

Manoa, The Prose Poem, Virginia Quarterly Review, Zyzzyva