Robert Sward

“ON MY WAY TO THE KOREAN WAR" , Collected Poems, 1957-2004, Black Moss Press, Fall, 2004. (Firefly Distributor).

Born on the Jewish North Side of Chicago, bar mitzvahed, sailor, amnesiac, university professor (Cornell, Iowa, Connecticut College), newspaper editor, food reviewer, father of five children, husband to four wives, my writing career has been described by critic Virginia Lee as a "long and winding road."

In addition to poetry and fiction, Robert produces multi-media "collages" for the World Wide Web. He teaches for the University of California Extension in Santa Cruz, and work as an editorial consultant.