Robert Glück is a poet, fiction writer and editor. In the late 70’s, he and Bruce Boone founded New Narrative, a literary movement of self-reflexive storytelling that combines essay, lyric, and autobiography in one work. Glück is the author of the novels Margery Kempe, About Ed, and Jack the Modernist (all NYRB); the story collections, Elements and Denny Smith; and a volume of collected essays, Communal Nude. His books of poetry include La Fontaine with Bruce Boone, Reader, In Commemoration of the Visit with Kathleen Fraser, and I, Boombox. With Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott, he edited the anthology Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Glück was co-director of Small Press Traffic and associate editor at Lapis Press. He served as director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Glück is a potter as well as a writer. He has shown his ceramics most recently at Treize Galerie in Paris and at Artists Space in New York. He lives “high on a hill” in San Francisco.
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