Kirk Robertson is a poet, essayist, publisher, editor, and artist. Robertson was born in 1946 in Los Angeles and moved around the West before settling in Fallon in 1975, where he has resided ever since. Before leaving California, he studied with the well-known California poet Gerald Locklin at California State University, Long Beach. His poetry has roots in both the "plainspoken" tradition of Locklin and his close friend Charles Bukowski, as well as in the more formal and minimal style of Robert Creeley.