Robin Beth Schaer

Robin Beth Schaer is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. Her research and teaching focus on hybrid forms, contemporary poetry, environmental writing, documentary poetics, gender/sexuality studies, global literature, and Jewish studies. She holds degrees from Colgate University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Education:

• B.A., Colgate University
• M.F.A., Columbia University School of the Arts

Her creative work includes the poetry collection Shipbreaking (Anhinga Press, 2015) and a work in progress on art and atrocity. Her writing has appeared in prestigious journals like Tin House, Paris Review, and Guernica.

Awards & Fellowships:

• Creative Capital Award Shortlist (2022)
• NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (2021)
• Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2020)
• Residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Djerassi, Saltonstall, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

She has taught writing across New York, New Jersey, and Ohio, and previously worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty (lost in Hurricane Sandy).