About

Bob Stanley teaches creative writing and English composition at CSU Sacramento and Sacramento City College. Bob’s poems have been published in various journals and have won a number of awards including the "California Focus on Writers" first prize for poetry in 2006. Bob is President of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and he edited the California Arts Council's 2009 poetry anthology entitled "Sometimes in the Open." He and his wife Joyce have four children and live in Sacramento. Bob’s first book of poems, "Walt Whitman Orders a Cheeseburger," will be published by Rattlesnake Press in the spring of 2009.