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Robert Roripaugh
Robert Roripaugh was appointed by Gov. Jim Geringer to serve as Wyoming's Poet Laureate from 1995 through 2002. A writer of fiction as well as poetry, he ranched with his parents along the Wind River Mountains near Lander and completed B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Wyoming in the 1950s. After Army service in Japan and further graduate work, he returned to Laramie where he taught creative writing and western American literature for 35 years. During that time he directed some forty master's degree thesis projects for students in the Department of English or American Studies. [more info]
