Rob Schlegel

Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing 2009), selected by James Longenbach for the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and January Machine (Four Way Books 2014), selected by Stephanie Burt for the Grub Street National Book Prize. His third collection, In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa Press 2019), was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the Iowa Poetry Prize. Four Way Books published his fourth collection, Childcare, in 2023. His writing has appeared in The Boston Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. With the poets Daniel Poppick and Rawaan Alkhatib, he co-edits The Catenary Press. He has taught in the MFA Program at Portland State University and currently teaches at Whitman College.