Dr. Robert Hass is the author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science (Virginia 2002), which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004, and a poetry collection, Counting Thunder (David Robert Books 2008). He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Journals Award, and a creative writing fellowship to Bread Loaf. He is currently Professor of English at PennWest Edinboro University, where he teaches courses in American Literature, Classical literature, and Shakespeare.