About

Robert Wood Lynn is a writer from Virginia. His debut poetry collection Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press) was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New York Times and the New York Public Library. His chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact was published by Button Poetry in 2023. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, his writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, New Ohio Review and other journals, as well as been included in the Southern Poetry Anthology: Virginia. A recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, the James Merrill House and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, he splits his time between in Rockbridge County, Virginia and New York City, where he co-hosts the DGN Reading Series. He teaches creative writing at Juilliard and at Brooklyn Poets.