Robert Hill Long

Poet, Fiction Writer

140 Pine Grove Road

Southern Pines, NC 28387

Email:

rohilong@gmail.com

Website:

rhl.photography

Author's Bio

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

Education:

Warren Wilson College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthology:

Flash Fiction (W. W. Norton & Company, 1992)

Book:

The Effigies (Plinth Books, 1998)

Journals:

Manoa

ZYZZYVA

Poetry

Anthologies:

Birds in the Hand (Knopf, 2004)

Best American Poetry (Scribner, 1995)

Books:

Walking Wounded (WordTech Editions, 2012)

The Kilim Dreaming (Bear Star Press, 2010)

The Work of the Bow (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1997)

The Power to Die (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1987)

Journals:

The Prose Poem

Virginia Quarterly Review

Prizes won:

Oregon Arts Commission Fellow 2011 / Dorothy Brunsman Prize 2010 / NEA Poetry Fellow 2005 / Balch Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review 1999 /. Oregon Arts Commission Fellow 1997 / Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize 1995 / North Carolina Art Council Fellow 1986

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

English American, Scotch-Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Raleigh, NC

North Carolina

Raised in:

Wilmington, NC

North Carolina

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Last update: Jul 05, 2019