Robert Miltner is an emeritus professor from Kent State University Stark and the Northeast Ohio MFA and the author of three books of prose poetry: Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press Poetry Prize), Orpheus & Echo (Etruscan Press ), and Cicatrix Vortex Codex (MadHat Press, forthcoming), as well as chapbooks including Against the Simple (Kent State University Press Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize) and Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Fine Press Editions Poetry Chapbook Prize). His short story collection is And Your Bird Can Sing (Bottom Dog Press) and his nonfiction collection is Ohio Apertures (Cornerstone Press). He has been recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Award for Poetry and an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, and has recently been Poet-in-Residence at the Chautauqua Institution and Visiting Scholar on Contemporary American Poetry at the University of Paris East, France.