Robert Olen Butler

Biography

Robert Olen Butler is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Holt, 1992), the title story of which originally appeared in VQR. His most recent books include From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (Grove, 2005) and Severance (Chronicle, 2006).

See Work

Spring 2007

Intercourse

By Robert Olen Butler
POETRY / Fall 2004

Five Beheadings

By Robert Olen Butler

I swim in his beard diving deep my breath giving out quickly in spite of all I know to do, all that he has taught me, my Merlin, he has schooled me in the things of the pot—the dragon’s blood and the mistletoe and the black willow—he has...

Autumn 1990

Fairy Tale

By Robert Olen Butler
Winter 1994

The Handwriting on the Wall

By Robert Olen Butler