Robert Tremmel

Robert Tremmel grew up in Northwest Iowa, studied at the University of Iowa, and is Emeritus Professor of English at Iowa State University.  He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Records of Kosho the Toad from Bottom Dog Press, and he has published widely in both academic and literary journals and magazines. For the last twenty-three years, he and his wife, Michelle, have lived in Ankeny, Iowa, just a short drive from waters polluted by farm run-off from Northwest Iowa.