Rob Fitterman got his M.A. in poetry in 1986. The title of his thesis manuscript was Leases which was published by Periphery Press the year he graduated. Since then he has published 6 books including among the cynics (Singing Horse Press) and Ameresque (Buck Downs Books). Book One of his on-going poem Metropolis was awarded the Sun & Moon New American Poetry Award in 2000, and was recently published by that press. Metropolis 16-29 was published by Coach House Books (Toronto 2002) and his latest collection Metropolis 30: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published by Edge Books in 2004. Fitterman collaborated with visual artist Dirk Rowntree on War The Musical, published by Subpress in 2006. He has also collaborated with visual artists DeWitt Godfrey, Don Colley, Klaus Killisch and Sabine Herrmann. He is the editor-publisher of Object literary jounal and Object/p o e t s c o o p books. From 1987-1996 he was a curator and organizer for the Ear Inn Reading Series (Segue Foundation). His writing has appeared in numerous literary journals including Grand Street, Sulfur, Origin, Arras, West Coast Line, Tripwire, Shiny and others. He has taught composition and creative writing in the General Studies Program at NYU for 15 years.