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Robin Beth Schaer is the author of the poetry collection Shipbreaking (Anhinga 2015). Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, Bomb Magazine, Paris Review, and Guernica, among others.
Her honors include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2020 and fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Saltonstall Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She holds degrees from Colgate University and Columbia University. Born and raised in New York, she now lives in Ohio with her husband, the writer Anthony Tognazzini, and their son. She is a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.