Vol 2 No 1 2008
Robert Fisher graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in German Literature, with a minor in Russian, and an M.A. in Linguistics, and from UCLA a doctorate in Indo-European Studies (ancient languages and comparative mythology), which led to further studies in Buddhism and Chinese language and poetry. He is now Coordinator of the Bethune College Writing Center at York University. He also has a master’s degree in psychology and has worked as a psychotherapist. He has lived in Hong Kong, China, Japan and Australia, and has traveled widely in Asia and in Europe, especially Italy, where he feels truly at home. His Nine Moons of August, a collection of poems and prose poems, appeared in Negative Capability (1992) and his chapbooks include In the Sparrow’s Beak, Frail Books for Pennies, The Smoke of Forgotten Tribes and Rattling toward Taksim. His website is poetryofrobertfisher.com
