Bio

Robert S. King lives in Athens, Georgia. Since the 1970s he has published poems in hundreds of magazines, including The Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Pirene’s Fountain, Midwest Quarterly, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Negative Capability, The Hollins Critic, Chattahoochee Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Atlanta Review, etc. He has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020), and Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press, 2023).

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Editorial Positions Gray Day, Assistant Editor 1976-1979 Ali Baba Press (publisher of Lodestar and Local Storms), Co-editor, 1982-1989 University of GA, College of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences, Publications Editor, 1988-1998 Whistle Press, Inc. (publisher of Gaia: A Journal of Literary & Environmental Arts), Editor-in-Chief, 1993-1999 FutureCycle Press (publisher of FutureCycle Poetry), Director, 2007 to 2012 FutureCycle Press, anthology series co-editor and board member, 2012-present Kentucky Review, editor-in-chief, 2014-2017 Good Works Review (successor to Kentucky Review), editor-in-chief, 2017 to 2021

Books Published

When Stars Fall Down as Snow, Garland Press, 1976

Dream of the Electric Eel, Wolfsong Publications, 1982

Traveller’s Tale, Whistle Press, Inc., 1998

The Hunted River, Shared Roads Press, 2009, 1st edition. FutureCycle Press, 2012, 2nd edition. Also available in Kindle ebook.

The Gravedigger’s Roots, Shared Roads Press, 2009, 1st edition. FutureCycle Press, 2012, 2nd edition. Also available in Kindle ebook.

One Man’s Profit, Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013.

Diary of the Last Person on Earth, Sybaritic Press, 2014.

Developing a Photograph of God, Glass Lyre Press, 2014.

Messages from Multiverses, Duck Lake Books, 2020.

Selected Poems, FutureCycle Press, 2023.

Reviews

The Green Hills Literary Lantern (The Hunted River)

Neon (U.K.) out of print issue (The Hunted River)

The Whistling Shade (The Gravedigger’s Roots)

Wild Goose Poetry Review (The Gravedigger’s Roots)

The Perpetual Bird out of print (The Gravedigger’s Roots)

North Carolina Writers’ Network – West (One Man’s Profit)

Wild Goose Poetry Review (One Man’s Profit)

Pirene's Fountain (Developing a Photograph of God)