Robert Miltner is an emeritus professor from Kent State University Stark and the Northeast Ohio MFA and the author of three books of prose poetry: Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press Poetry Prize), Orpheus & Echo (Etruscan Press ), and Cicatrix Vortex Codex (MadHat Press, forthcoming), as well as chapbooks including Against the Simple (Kent State University Press Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize) and Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Fine Press Editions Poetry Chapbook Prize). His short story collection is And Your Bird Can Sing (Bottom Dog Press) and his nonfiction collection is Ohio Apertures (Cornerstone Press). This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023.