Robert VanderMolen has been publishing poems in such periodicals as Caliban, Salt Lick, Parnassus, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Epoch, Grand Street, and Sulfur since the mid-1960s. The 1995 recipient of an NEA Fellowship for poetry, he has authored a number of collections (The Pavilion, Along the River, Night Weather, Of Pines, The Lost Book, Variations, Peaches), the most recent of which is Breath (New Issues Press, 2000). An alumnus of Michigan State University ('71), VanderMolen earned an MFA from the University of Oregon ('73) and resides in Grand Rapids.