Robin Walter
Robin Walter is a poet, book artist, and printmaker whose first collection attends closely to the natural world and the small acts of looking that can become forms of care. The Academy of American Poets selected Little Mercy for its 2024 First Book Award; Graywolf Press published it in 2025.
Life information: Living poet, book artist, and printmaker; born in Colorado Springs, teaches at Colorado State University, and lives in Fort Collins, according to the Academy of American Poets. No birth date is published there.
About the author
Robin Walter is a poet, book artist, and printmaker whose first collection attends closely to the natural world and the small acts of looking that can become forms of care. The Academy of American Poets selected Little Mercy for its 2024 First Book Award; Graywolf Press published it in 2025.
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Little Mercy
A debut collection of attentive, nature-facing poems, selected for the Academy of American Poets First Book Award by Victoria Chang.
Graywolf Press · ISBN 9781644453308
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