Meet The Authors

David Romtvedt

Romtvedt@uwyo.edu

http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/David+Romtvedt

David Romtvedt teaches in the MFA program for writers at the University of Wyoming and serves as the state's poet laureate. His books include: Moon; Free and Compulsory for All; How Many Horses; Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch; A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know; Crossing Wyoming; and Some Church.

He was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Southern Arizona. A graduate of Reed College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, he also studied at the University of Texas where he held a graduate fellowship in folklore and ethnomusicology. After serving in the Peace Corps in Zaire (currently Congo) and Rwanda and on a sister city construction project in Jalapa, Nicaragua, he worked as the folk arts program manager for the Centrum Foundation. He is the recipient of the Wyoming Governor's Arts Award, a Wyoming Arts Council Literature fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the National Poetry series award, and two NEA fellowships in poetry and music. He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming with his wife, the potter Margo Brown. Romtvedt will be teaching a two-day creative writing workshop, The Lyrical and Our Emotions, offering CEU's, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18-19, in room 217 in the Strausner Center at Casper College. His books are for sale at the college bookstore, also located in the Center just down the hall from room 217.