Robert Gregory

Robert Gregory, a native of Omaha, was born in 1947. He is the author of six books, including You Won’t Need That (Willow Springs Books, 2013); The Beautiful City of Weeds (Hanging Loose Press, 2005); Change, the Skinny Man (Lynx House Press, 2003), winner of the 2001 Blue Lynx Prize; Boy Picked Up by the Wind (Bluestem Press, 1992), winner of the 1992 Bluestem Poetry Award; and Interferences (Poltroon Press, 1987). 

Gregory was the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for poetry in 1992. He worked as a technical writer for the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Gregory died in 2018.