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Poet Robyn Schiff was born in New Jersey. She earned an MFA at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MA at the University of Bristol. She is the author of the poetry collections A Woman of Property (2016), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of…
Robyn Schiff (born January 10, 1973) is an American poet. Life. Schiff was born in Metuchen, New Jersey. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA in medieval studies from University of Bristol and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop .
Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections: Information Desk (Penguin Books, 2023), a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; A Woman of Property (Penguin Books, 2016); Revolver (University of Iowa Press, 2008), a finalist for the PEN Award; and Worth (University Of Iowa Press, 2002). A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Schiff has ...
Robyn Schiff. Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature; Director of the Program in Creative Writing. rschiff@uchicago.edu. Taft 301. Research Interests: Ekphrastic Poetry; Making and Breaking Form; The Long Poem; Female Poets; Gothic Poetry; Poetry Playground.
- How long did it take you to write Information Desk? It took me about twenty years notto write it, and then another six to sit down and do it.
- What was the most challenging thing about writing the book? Limiting and defining the scope. Information Desktakes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds over a million objects created over a span of about five thousand years.
- Where, when, and how often do you write? When I’m really writing, deep in a poem, I do so seated at my desk—as often as I can for as many hours in a row as possible, at multiple intervals around the clock.
- What are you reading right now? I was reading Henry James’s novel Roderick Hudson but had to return it to the library in a different country before I finished it, so I picked up Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day.
Robyn Schiff is the author of three poetry collections, Worth (2002), Revolver (2008), and A Woman of Property (2016), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune, and was an Editors’ Choice at the New York Times.
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Mar 14, 2016 · “A Woman of Property” (Penguin Poets), Robyn Schiff’s third volume of poetry, is a study of the imagination’s darker powers and their daily, domestic insurrections. American poets have long...
