Robert Vivian
Robert Vivian is an essayist, poet, playwright and short story writer who teaches at Alma College in Michigan and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Vivian's first book, Cold Snap As Yearning, won the Society of Midland Authors Award in Nonfiction and the Nebraska Center for the Book in 2002. His first novel, The Mover Of Bones, was published in 2006 and is Part I of The Tall Grass Trilogy. Part II, Lamb Bright Saviors, was published in the spring of 2010, and Part III, Another Burning Kingdom (2011, Nebraska Press). His prize winning collection of essays, The Least Cricket Of Evening, was also published in 2011. His most recent novel, Water And Abandon, will be published in 2012; and he has just completed another novel, The Long Fall To Dirt Heaven. He also writes plays, over twenty of which have been produced in NYC. Many of his monologues have been published in Best Men's Stage Monologues and Best Women's Stage Monologues. His most recent foray into playwriting was an adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts that premiered at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo in 2006. His work has been published in all the major journals, including Harper's, Georgia Review, Ecotone, Creative Non-fiction, Glimmer Train, and others, and his essays have appeared in Best American Essays for 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009. He is Associate Professor of English at Alma College in Michigan and is in the low-residency MFA program at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.
For more information, see
- His profile at Alma College
- His page at Nebraska Center for Writers which includes a biography, bibliography, commentary, and several selections from his work.
- Three poems at Poetry Mountain
- His short story Eating the Bible at Agni online
- An excerpt from The Mover of Bones at Google Books
- An excerpt from Cold Snap as Yearning at Google Books
- An excerpt from Lamb Bright Saviors at Google Books
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