Robert Klein Engler was born in Chicago. He worked many years as a department chairman and as a faculty union leader at the City Colleges of Chicago until he was banned by the Chancellor in May, 1997. He now teaches at Roosevelt University. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James White Review, American Letters and Commentary, Kansas Quarterly, and many other magazines and journals. He was the recipient of Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards for his poem “Flower Festival at Genzano,” which appeared in Whetstone and “Three Poems for Kabbalah,” which appeared in Fish Stories, II.
His photography was featured in Midnight Mind Number Four.