ABOUT
Robin Beth Schaer is a poet and essayist. She teaches writing in Ohio. She worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty, a 180-foot ship lost in Hurricane Sandy.
WRITING
Schaer's poetry collection, Shipbreaking, was published in 2015 by Anhinga Press. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Paris Review, and Guernica, among others. Her current project, a collection of essays and poems about art and atrocity, was included on the Creative Capital 2022 Shortlist.
NEWS
Robin Beth Schaer received a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts in 2021 and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2020. Both publicly-funded awards support an artist's growth and development.