Robyn Schiff

Robyn Schiff (born January 10, 1973) is an American poet who is a Guggenheim Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Life Schiff was born in Metuchen, New Jersey. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA in medieval studies from University of Bristol and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1999.

Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, A Public Space, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collections Worth, Revolver (a finalist for a 2008 PEN award), and A Woman of Property. Her most recent book, Information Desk (Penguin Books, 2023), was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

She is co-editor of Canarium Books. Schiff joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2008 as an associate professor of English, teaching poetry in the Department of English and directing undergraduate creative writing. She has since taught at Emory University and is currently a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where she also directs the Program in Creative Writing. who is also on the faculty at the University of Chicago, and their child, Sacha Twemlow.