Robert Morgan is the author of several books of poems, including Terroir (2011) and Dark Energy (2015). He has published twelve books of fiction, including The New York Times bestseller Gap Creek, and, most recently, Chasing the North Star (2016), As Rain Turns to Snow (2017), and In the Snowbird Mountains and Other Stories (2023). His works of nonfiction include Lions of the West (2011), Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (2023), and the national bestseller Boone: A Biography (2007). Recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is currently Kappa Alpha Professor of English (Emeritus) at Cornell University.