Robley Wilson
Encyclopedia
Robley Wilson is an American poet
, writer, and editor.
, the University of Iowa
, Northwestern University
, Pitzer College
, and the University of Central Florida
, and the University of Northern Iowa
from 1963 to 1996.
He was editor of The North American Review
from 1969 to 2000; his work appeared in Ploughshares.
He married fiction writer Susan Hubbard
in 1995; they live in Orlando
, and Cape Canaveral, Florida
.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, writer, and editor.
Life
He taught at Beloit CollegeBeloit College
Beloit College is a liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. Beloit is the oldest continuously operated college in Wisconsin, and has the oldest building of any college...
, the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
, Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, Pitzer College
Pitzer College
Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, a college town approximately east of downtown Los Angeles. Pitzer College is one of the Claremont Colleges....
, and the University of Central Florida
University of Central Florida
The University of Central Florida, commonly referred to as UCF, is a metropolitan public research university located in Orlando, Florida, United States...
, and the University of Northern Iowa
University of Northern Iowa
The University of Northern Iowa is a college located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. UNI offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college.UNI has...
from 1963 to 1996.
He was editor of The North American Review
North American Review
The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
from 1969 to 2000; his work appeared in Ploughshares.
He married fiction writer Susan Hubbard
Susan Hubbard
Susan Hubbard is an American fiction writer and professor at the University of Central Florida. She has written seven books of fiction, and is a winner of the Associated Writing Program Prize for Short Fiction and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best prose book of the year by an American...
in 1995; they live in Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, and Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,829 at the 2000 census. As of 2008, the estimated population according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 10,147...
.
Awards
- 1986 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeAgnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeThe Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...
- 1983–84 Guggenheim Fellow in fiction.
- 1982 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeDrue Heinz Literature PrizeThe Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American literary award for short fiction in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated in 1981 by Mrs. Drue Heinz and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel...
- Nicholl Fellow in Screenwriting
Stories
- Living Alone [stories]. Canton NY, Fiction International, 1978
External links
- Author's website
- An Interview with Robley Wilson, James Plath, IWU
- http://www.jstor.org/pss/25126502Reminiscences of Robley Wilson, Margaret Atwood, James Michael Dorsey, Gary Gildner, Perry GlasserPerry GlasserPerry Glasser is a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, essayist, and teacher. Glasser’s imaginative work often explores the diminishing options of characters undergoing emotional stress until their only remaining choice is violence; his memoirs and essays illuminate questions of how we live now...
, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Leo J. Hertzel, Stephen Minot, Mary Peterson and Natalia Rachel Singer]