Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan (born 1944) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

Life He studied at North Carolina State University as an engineering and mathematics major, transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an English major, graduating in 1965, and completed an MFA degree at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1968.

He has taught at Cornell University since 1971, and was appointed Professor of English in 1984.

Awards Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize 2012 SIBA Book Award (nonfiction) for Lions of the West. 2013 William "Singing Billy" Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Letters.

Works Poetry Collections Zirconia Poems. Northwood Narrows, New Hampshire: Lillabulero Press, 1969.

Red Owl. New York: Norton, 1972.

Trunk & Thicket. Fort Collins, Colorado: L’Epervier Press, 1978. Groundwork. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1979. Bronze Age. Emory, Virginia: Iron Mountain Press, 1981. At the Edge of the Orchard Country. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

Green River: New and Selected Poems. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1991. Wild Peavines: New Poems. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1996.

Individual poems ""OPTION", The Atlantic, October 1997 ""Wind From a Waterfall", The Atlantic, September 1999 ""Girdling", The Atlantic, December 1997 ""Holy Cussing", Southern Poetry Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2004 "Fern glade", The Atlantic, December 2009

Short fiction Collections

The Mountains Won’t Remember Us and Other Stories. Atlanta, Georgia: Peachtree Publishers, 1992.

Stories "The Distant Blue Hills", The Southern Review

Novels

Non-fiction Good Measure: Essays, Interviews and Notes on Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Boone: A Biography, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007, Lions of the West - Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, Shannon Ravenel Books, 2011,