Morgan, Robert, 1944-....

Robert Morgan, poet, received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, and began teaching creative writing at Cornell University in 1971.

North Carolina poet Robert Morgan was born in Hendersonville, N.C., in 1944 and grew up on the family farm in Zirconia. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (A.B., 1965), where he studied with Jessie Rehder, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (M.F.A., 1968), where he worked with Fred Chappell. He also studied with Guy Owen at North Carolina State University.

Morgan taught English at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1968-1969, and then, supported by a National Endowment for the Arts grant, moved back to Hendersonville to write full-time. In 1971, he began teaching creative writing at Cornell University.

Morgan is a widely published poet, many of his poems having appeared in major literary magazines. He also has published several collections of poems, some of which are represented in this collection.

Married to Nancy Bullock in 1965, Morgan has two children, and, as of 1989, lived in Freeville, N.Y.