Robert Dana is the author of eleven books of poetry including Summer (Anhinga Press, 2000) and Hello, Stranger (Anhinga press, 1996). He graduated in 1954 from the University of Iowa Writers� Workshop where he studied with Robert Lowell and John Berryman. He has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at universities in the U.S. and abroad, and after 40 years of teaching at Cornell College he retired in 1994 as Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. In 1989, he received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. (2003)