Robert Wood Lynn is a writer from Virginia. His debut collection Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022) was the winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry, the Southern Review, and other publications. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, he splits his time between Brooklyn, NY, and Rockbridge County, VA.