A transplanted Midwesterner, Kit Robinson studied poetry with Ted Berrigan at Yale, drove cab in Boston, and settled in the SF Bay Area, where he preferred odd jobs to the regular ones. He has served as director of the Tenderloin Writers Workshop and taught for many years through California Poets in the Schools. Currently, he works as a writer in the computer industry.
Robinson is the author of over a dozen books. The latest is Balance Sheet (New York: Roof, 1994). His poem, "In the American Tree," lent its title to a radio show (KPFA Berkeley) and an anthology (edited by Ron Silliman). His work has appeared in Italy, France, Sweden, and Russia. His translation of the Russian poet Ilya Kutik's Ode on Visiting the Belosaraisk Spit on the Sea of Asov is forthcoming in a bilingual edition from Alef Press.
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