Robert Fanning is the author of four full-length poetry collections, Severance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet and The Seed Thieves, as well as three chapbooks: Prince of the Air, Sheet Music and Old Bright Wheel. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Gulf Coast, The Common, Waxwing, Diode, and many other journals. He is a Professor at Central Michigan University and the Founder/Facilitator of the Wellspring Literary Series in Mt. Pleasant, MI.