robyn art
Robyn Art is a native of Lincoln, Massachusetts, hometown of the band They Might Be Giants. After graduating from Colby College, she spent four years on the west coast nominally-employed as a waitress, barista, meat-slicer, bartender, inventory clerk, childcare worker, personal trainer. And New-Age dance studio/meditation center/intimacy-coaching practice receptionist. She returned to the east coast in 2001 for New York University’s MFA program in Creative Writing and more low-wage employment. Her recent poems have appeared in Slope, The Hat, Conduit, Slipstream, Gulf Coast, The New Delta Review, Wicked Alice, The Burnside Review, and canwehaveourballback.com, and her work will be included in the anthologies The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel: Second Floor (No Tell Books, Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, editors, Spring 2007) and Outside Voices Anthology of Younger American Poets (Outside Voices Press, John Sakkis and Jessica Smith, editors, January 2008). She has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, received Finalist honors in 2003, and has received grants from the Vermont Studio Center, The Academy of American Poets, and the Jentel Arts Foundation. She is the author of the poetry manuscript, The Stunt Double In Winter, which was selected as a Finalist for the 2004 Kore Press First Book Award and the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. The collection will be published by Dusie Press in Spring 2007. She is the author of the chapbooks Degrees of Being There (Boneworld Press, May 2003), No Longer A Blonde (forthcoming from Boneworld Press in Spring 2007), Vestigial Portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Dancing Girl Press, September 2006), and Scenes From The Body (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in April 2007). Her work has appeared in several mixed-media shows, most recently the Spontaneous Art and Peace Works exhibits at the Times Square Lobby Gallery, NYC. Several of her poems were incorporated into the Crossing Borders project, an improvisational concert designed and performed by the Newcastle University Orchestra in conjunction with the Newcastle Opera House in Newcastle, Australia. When she’s not traveling solo through North America, courtesy of Amtrak and Greyhound, she can be found living in Brooklyn and teaching English, Literature, and Creative Writing at Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, and Felician College.