Robert Miltner, author of the prize-winning collection of prose poetry, HOTEL UTOPIA (New Rivers Press, 2011), was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1949. Miltner holds a doctoral degree in English from Kent State University, and is an associate professor of English at Kent State. Also, he is a faculty member at Northeast Ohio MFA Creative Writing Consortium since 2006. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Award for his work titled, Against the Simple.