Robert Lunday received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1980, and later completed graduate degrees at the University of Houston (MA 1985, Ph.D. 2002). He has been a two-time fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center (1986-87, 1988-89), a St. Albans School Writer in Residence in Washington, D.C. (1987-88), and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1989-91). In 2002 he was awarded a Brazos Bookstore/Academy of American Poets Prize and a Barthelme/Inprint Award for Nonfiction Writing. His first book, Mad Flights, a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters First-Book Award, was published in 2002 by Ashland Poetry Press. His second book, Gnome, was the first volume published by Black Sun Lit in 2017, and was named one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2017” by Entropy magazine. While has taught English at Houston Community College for 22 years, and owned a horse farm with his wife, Yukiko Lunday.

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