Rob Carney is the author of Accidental Gardens (creative non-fiction) and nine books of poems, most recently The Book of Drought (Texas Review Press 2024), which won the XJ Kennedy Prize for Poetry and received a Kirkus starred review. He has received the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry, and he has written a featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for the award-winning journal Terrain.org for the last nine years. Favorite drink: coffee. Favorite animal: the Great White. He is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.
