Robert Schultz

Robert Schultz (www.robertschultz.com) has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Award in Fiction, Cornell University's Corson Bishop Poetry Prize, and, from The Virginia Quarterly Review, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. Results of his art & poetry collaboration with Vietnamese-American artist Binh Danh have appeared recently in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Northwest Review, and Subtropics, and have been collected in the multimedia iBook ANCESTRAL ALTARS. A book of poems and images, entitled THE SCENT OF MINT, is in the works. He has published four other books, including two collections of poetry, VEIN ALONG THE FAULT and WINTER IN EDEN, a novel, THE MADHOUSE NUDES, and a work of nonfiction, WE WERE PIRATES: A TORPEDOMAN'S PACIFIC WAR. Schultz has worked as a house painter, truck driver, and professor. A native Iowan, he attended Luther College and received MFA and PhD degrees at Cornell University. In 1985 he returned to Luther, where he taught for 19 years. He has also taught at Cornell and at the University of Virginia . Since 2004 he has been the John P. Fishwick Professor of English at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Additional information is available at www.robertschultz.com.