Robert Richter

The author a dozen books, including poetry, fiction, and regional history, Robert Richter has a fifty-year relationship with the American High Plains and with Latin America. Those cultural geographies inspire his work.  In 2000 Richter won the Nebraska Arts Council’s Literary Achievement Award for nonfiction, and in 2007, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Buenos Aires.  His fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies about the American West and Latin America. Richter has also been a wheat farmer, substitute teacher, and tour guide in Mexico and Argentina..