Robert Bernard Hass, Ph.D. is a poet, critic, and scholar and is the author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science (University of Virginia Press, 2002), which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title; and the poetry collection Counting Thunder (Wordtech, 2008). He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, an Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Award, and a fellowship to Bread Loaf. He teaches American literature, classical literature, and Shakespeare at PennWest Edinboro.