Robert GrunstRobert Grunst is the author of BLUE ORANGE (Ashland Poetry Press, 2012) and THE SMALLEST BIRD IN NORTH AMERICA (New Issues, 2000). His poems have appeared in American Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Iowa Review, Nmrod, Poetry East, Seneca Review, Tar River Poetry, and many other magazines. His essays focusing on the history and culture of the Great Lakes commercial fishery have appeared in a number of publications including Inland Seas, Lake Superior Magazine, and Michigan History Magazine. Grunst was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and raised in Holland, Michigan, on the western shore of Lake Michigan. He taught 9th grade English for the Midland, Michigan Public Schools and subsequently spent three years working as a gillnet fisherman and engineer on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. He teaches a variety of courses including creative writing as Professor in the English Department at St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Read More Read Less