Biography
Born in Denver, Colorado, with Ft. Collins his hometown, Robert King attended Colorado State University (M. A. American Literature, 1961) and the University of Iowa (Ph. D. English/Creative Writing, 1965). He retired from the University of North Dakota as Professor Emeritus in 1995. After five years as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln, he came to Greeley where he lives and teaches part-time at the University of Northern Colorado.
He has published five chapbooks—the most recent, What It Was Like from Small Poetry Press in 2003—and his work has appeared in anthologies as well as magazines including Ascent, Atlanta Review, Blue Unicorn, Carolina Quarterly, Great River Review, The Malahat Review, Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review, Nebraska Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Northeast, Poetry, Rattle, Red Rock Review, and South Dakota Review.