Robin Behn (born 1958) is an American poet, and professor at University of Alabama^[1] and Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[2][3]

She grew up in Barrington, Illinois. She graduated from Oberlin College, the University of Missouri, and University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in Cortland Review,^[4] Perihelion,^[5] Poetry,^[6] and Kenyon Review.^[7]

Awards

• 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship^[8]
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Works

• Paper Bird. Texas Tech University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-89672-164-7. robin behn.
• The Red Hour, HarperCollins, 1993, ISBN 978-0-06-096952-3
• Horizon Note. University of Wisconsin Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-299-17534-4.
• Naked Writing, DoubleCross Press, 2008
• The Yellow House, Spuyten Duyvil, 2010, ISBN 978-1-933132-76-1

Editor

• The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach. HarperCollins. 1992. ISBN 978-0-06-273024-4. robin behn.
• Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing. University of Alabama Press. 2020. ISBN 978-0817359423.