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Robert Huddleston is a poet, translator, and essayist. He grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and in West Africa, studied at Dartmouth College, the University of London, and the University of Chicago, where he earned a PhD in comparative literature. He is coauthor, with Alexandra Huddleston, of the collaborative artists’ books Lost Things and Amor Fati.
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