Ed Roberson is the author of ten books of poetry including the chapbook Closest Pronunciation (Northwestern University Press, 2013). His most recent full-length collection, To See the Earth before the End of the World (Wesleyan University Press, 2010), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and one of two runners-up for the Kingsley-Tufts Award. An earlier work, Atmosphere Condition (Sun and Moon, 2000), was selected for the National Poetry Series and nominated for the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Award.

His newest collection, Asked What Has Changed, is projected for release from Wesleyan University Press in 2020.

Roberson is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Other honors include the African American Literature and Culture Association’s Stephen Henderson Critics Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.