Robert Wrigley (born 1951 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is an American poet and educator.
in Poetry from the University of Montana in 1976, where he studied under poets Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and John Haines.
His poems have been published in a number of journals, including Poetry, The Atlantic, Barrow Street, and The New Yorker.
In the Bank of Beautiful Sins won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award.
program in creative writing at the University of Idaho, where his wife, Kim Barnes, a memoirist and writer, also taught until her retirement in 2020.