Robert Schultz has authored seven books in three genres, including three previous books of poetry. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Award, Cornell University's Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize, and, from the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. An exhibiting artist, his work is held in the Library of Congress, in the permanent collections of several museums, and by individual collectors in the US and abroad. He lives in Salem, Virginia.