Robert Wood Lynn

Robert Wood Lynn is an American poet. His debut collection, Mothman Apologia, earned him the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He teaches poetry at Juilliard and lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia and New York City.

Biography and career Lynn was born in Virginia. He received a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Virginia School of Law, and later completed a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Poetry at New York University. and a “Best Book of 2022” by the New York Public Library. New York Times poetry critic Elisa Gabbert described Lynn’s work as “both elegiac and witty.” and the 2023 Indiana Review Poetry Prize for his poem “Kings County.”

Lynn has received fellowships from New York University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Published works Lynn’s poems have appeared in publications such as American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, and The Yale Review, among others.

Full-length poetry collections

Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022)

Chapbooks

How to Maintain Eye Contact (Button Poetry, 2023)

In anthologies

Lynn’s work has been included in the anthology The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia published by Texas Review Press.

Honors and awards Lynn’s recognition has included:

2023 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry