Robert Miltner is Professor of English at Kent State University and is on the poetry and fiction faculty of the NEOMFA. He has received a Wick chapbook award for Against the Simple, a Red Berry Editions Chapbook Award for Eurydice Rising, and the Many Voices Poetry Prize from New Rivers Press, selected by Tim Seibles, for the prose poem collection Hotel Utopia. A recipient of an Individual Excellence in Poetry Award from the Ohio Arts Council, Miltner was a 2015 finalist both for National Poetry Series and the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit.