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Robyn Schiff

Robyn Schiff

Robyn Schiff

Born: 10 January 1973

Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections: Information Desk (Penguin Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; A Woman of Property (Penguin Books, 2016); Revolver (University of Iowa Press, 2008), a finalist for the PEN Award; and Worth (University Of Iowa Press, 2002). A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Schiff has taught at Emory University and is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of Chicago, and is an editor at Canarium Books. (Source)

Poems by Robyn Schiff

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To the Jewel Wasp by Robyn Schiff

September 22, 2025
“just a groom and a / walk, and a nest and an egg, and a roach called / cock.” — Robyn Schiff