Roy Bentley has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems have appeared in the Southern Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Pleiades, Blackbird, Sou’wester, American Literary Review and elsewhere. He has published nine chapbooks and three books of poetry, including The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, which won the White Pine Poetry Prize and was published by White Pine in 2006. His fourth collection, Starlight Taxi, is the winner of the 2012 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry and will appear in 2013.

Starlight Taxi (Lynx House Press, 2013), The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana (White Pine Press, 2006), Any One Man (Bottom Dog Press, 1992), Boy in a Boat (University of Alabama Press, 1986)

The Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife (Pudding House Publications, 2009), Funerals in the South (Pudding House Publications, 2008), Woman & Alligator: The Florida Poems (Pudding House Publications, 2007), Strange Privacies (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2006), Bentley Hotel (Pudding House Publications, 2005), Greatest Hits: 1980-2001 (Pudding House Publications, 2002), Reparation (Pudding House Publications, 2001), The Edge of Heaven (Bottom Dog Press, 1988), The Way into Town (Signpost Press, 1984)

American Literary Review, Blackbird, Drunken Boat, Florida Review, Indiana Review, Laurel Review, Margie, Mid-American Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, New Virginia Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Ohio Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Sou'wester, Southern Review