Robert Witmer
Bewildering Stories biography
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For the past 45 years, Robert Witmer has lived in Tokyo, Japan, where he served as a Professor of English at Sophia University until his retirement in 2022.
His poems have appeared in many print and online journals, including Lily Poetry Review, The Mean Street Rag, Bacopa Literary Review, New Verse News, Parody, Shot Glass Journal, Stone Poetry Quarterly. A first book of poems, Finding a Way, was published in 2016. A second book, Serendipity, a collection of prose poetry pieces and haiku sequences, was published in March 2023.
Besides these original works, he served as the lead editor for a series of translations of contemporary Japanese plays: Half a Century of Japanese Theater.
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