Robert Gibb was born in the steel town of Homestead, Pennsylvania. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Origins of Evening, which was a National Poetry Series winner. Among his other awards are two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, seven Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants, a Best American Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, the Camden Poetry Award, The Wildwood Poetry Prize, and Prairie Schooner's Glenna Luschei and Strousse Awards. He lives on New Homestead Hill above the Monongahela River.
