Background
Morgan, Robert Ray was born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Clyde Ray and Fannie Geneva (Levi) Morgan.
Morgan, Robert Ray was born on October 3, 1944 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Clyde Ray and Fannie Geneva (Levi) Morgan.
Master of Fine Arts in Writing, U. North Carolina-Greensboro, 1968.
Instructor Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1968-1969. Lecturer Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1971-1973, assistant professor, 1973-1978, associate professor, 1978-1984, Professor of English, 1984.
Author: Zirconia Poems, 1969, Red Owl, 1972, Land Diving, 1976, Groundwork, 1979, At the Edge of the Orchard Country, 1987, The blue Valleys, 1989, Sigodlin, 1990, Green River: New and Selected Poems, 1991, The Mountains Won't Remember Us, 1992, Good Measure, 1993, The Hinterlands, 1994, The Truest Pleasure, 1995, Wild Peavines, 1996. Named Kappa Alpha professor of English, since 1992. Recipient Eunice Tietjens prize Poetry magazine, 1979.
National Endowment for Arts fellow, 1968, 74, 82, 87. Guggenheim fellowship, 1988-1989, James G. Hanes Poetry award Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1991, North Carolina Literature award, 1991. New York Foundation for Arts grantee, 1986.
Married Nancy Bullock, August 6, 1965;children: Benjamin, Laurel, Katie. Children: Benjamin, Laurel, Katie.