Fanning, Robert

Biography

Robert Fanning is the author of five full-length collections of poetry: All We Are Given We Cannot Hold, Severance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet, and The Seed Thieves, as well as three chapbooks: Prince of the Air, Sheet Music, and Old Bright Wheel. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Gulf Coast, The Atlanta Review, The Common, and many other journals.

A graduate of the University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College, he is an awardee of the CMU Faculty Distinguished Service Award, as well as a two-time winner of the CMU Excellence in Teaching Award. He is also the founder, facilitator and host of the Wellspring Literary Series, a vibrant annual community series of events featuring prominent  Michigan poets reading alongside CMU student poets, that takes place in downtown Mt. Pleasant.