William Stobb

William Stobb is an American poet and professor. He is the author of the National Poetry Series selection, Nervous Systems, Absentia, and You Are Still Alive as well as three chapbooks.

Life

William Stobb was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of North Dakota and the University of Nevada. He teaches at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, American Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, ''Kenyon Review, and Denver Quarterly. He creates audio art that can be heard on SoundCloud.
He is Associate Editor of Conduit,'' a literary magazine based in St. Paul. He was chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission from 2014-2017. His monthly column on poetry and poetics, “Hard to Say”, was podcast by miPOradio from 2004-2010.
He has presented at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.
He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Awards

1994 Academy of American Poets' Thomas McGrath Award
2000 Nevada Arts Council Poetry Fellowship
2006 National Poetry Series
2012 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize.
2014 Science Fiction Poetry Association Long Form Prize
2016 Science Fiction Poetry Association Long Form Prize
2019 Council for Wisconsin Writers Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction
2019 42 Miles Press Book Award

Poetry collections

Poetry chapbooks

University of Nevada.
University of Nevada.