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Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet, Spoken Word Artist

Public address:

Santa Cruz, CA

California US

Email:

robert@robertsward.com

Bio:

Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, 2016-2018.
Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, Iowa Writers' Workshop, & UC Santa Cruz. Born & raised in Chicago, Sward served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone Korean War Era. Produced features for CBC Radio. 1980s, book reviewer & feature writer also for Globe & Mail & Toronto Star while living on Toronto Islands. "New & Selected Poems, 1957-2011", Red Hen Press. .

"Love Has Made Grief Absurd--Gloria: A Monologue" in the voice of my wife, a visual artist struggling with Alzheimer's.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Chicago

Raised in:

Chicago, IL

Illinois

Website:

https://www.robertsward.com [2]

Prizes won:

1) Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry; 2) Fulbright Fellow for study in England; 3) Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award (selected by Lucille Clifton).
Resident at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire) and Carl Djerassi Foundation (California). Poet

What I'm reading now:

Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia

The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer

Dog Love by Marjorie Garber

Unleashed, Poems by Writers' Dogs by Amy Hempel & Jim Shepard

Memorable Dogs, An Anthology by Benjamin T. Spencer

Identifies as:

Jewish

Prefers to work with:

Any