Background
Roberson was born and raised in Pittsburgh and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970, and latter completed graduate work at Goddard College.
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University of Pittsburgh.
Career
He later served as a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh and at Rutgers University until 2002. Since 2007, he a visiting writer and artist in Residence at the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies and has also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College. His work appears in Callaloo.
Achievements
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2016 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Voelcker Award for Poetry 2008 Shelley Memorial Award 1998 National Poetry Series, for Atmosphere Conditions chosen by Nathaniel Mackey Iowa Poetry Prize for Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In Los Angeles Times Book Award Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature Lila Wallace-Reader"s Digest Writers" Award Lenore Marshall Award finalist, Academy of American Poets’.
Awards
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PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry; Shelley Memorial Award; National Poetry Series 2016 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 2008 Shelley Memorial Award 1998 National Poetry Series, for Atmosphere Conditions chosen by Nathaniel Mackey Iowa Poetry Prize for Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In LA Times Book Award Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award Lenore Marshall Award finalist, Academy of American Poets’PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry; Shelley Memorial Award; National Poetry Series 2016 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry 2008 Shelley Memorial Award 1998 National Poetry Series, for Atmosphere Conditions chosen by Nathaniel Mackey Iowa Poetry Prize for Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In LA Times Book Award Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award Lenore Marshall Award finalist, Academy of American Poets’