Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He taught for many years at the City Colleges of Chicago and was chairman of the Social Sciences Department until he was banned from the college by the Chancellor on May 16th, 1997. He now teaches at Roosevelt University. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Evergreen Chronicles, Christopher Street, The James White Review, American Letters and Commentary, Literal Lattè, and many other magazines and journals. His books of poetry, One Hundred Poems and Medicine Signs, are published by Alphabeta Press. He was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his poem Three Poems for Kabbalah, which appeared in Fish Stories Collective 2, and Flower Festival at Genzano which appeared in Whetstone. His drawings appear in Black Elvis, Rio, and other e-zines. Many examples of his writing are found online. His books are available through amazon.com.