Robert Morgan (writer)

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

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

Short fiction

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

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, ISBN 978-1-56512-615-2
 * Lions of the West - Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, Shannon Ravenel Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-56512-626-8