Robert Sward's Collected Poems received attention from Alan Cheuse, book, reviewer for National Public Radio in Encylopedia Britannica, naming it one of the top poetry books in North America. Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and at the UC Santa Cruz Extension. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is a recipient of the Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His twenty books include: Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press), A Much-Married Man, a novel, Rosicrucian in the Basement, Heavenly Sex, and Three Dogs & a Parrot. Sward serves as contributing editor to the Internet's Web Del Sol and Blue Moon Review.

Now living in San Diego, Sward is a poet and journalist who worked in Toronto throughout the 1980s as a CBC broadcaster, and journalist for The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail and The Financial Times. Sward also won the Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a sequence of poems about Chicago combined with family history.

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