Robyn Schiff

Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin 2023) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, and A Woman of Property (Penguin 2016), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books—an independent small press dedicated to publishing exceptional books of poetry—and she was the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust, at the American Academy in Rome. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.