Robert Killoren

Robert Killoren is thoroughly a Midwesterner. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri; lived in Columbia, Illinois; the family farm was located in St. Mary's, Kansas; he worked in Columbia, Missouri; lived for 17 years in central Pennsylvania; went to school in South Bend, Indiana; and was associate vice president at Ohio State. Along with Joseph Clark, Killoren was the founder of the Eads Bridge Review at St. Louis University. Later Joseph Clark and he founded the Eads Bridge Press which published The Missouri Poets: Sesquicentennial Edition, 1971. Robert was the editor of a BKMK Press anthology called Late Harvest: Plains and Prairie Poets, as well as two books of his own poetry. He worked at the Missouri Arts Council as literature program director in the early 1970s. He also worked at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation in St. Louis, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Pennsylvania State University, the Ohio State University, and the University of South Florida Polytechnic. Killoren has been recognized with a career achievement award by the National Council of University Research Administrators and the excellence award from the International Society of Research Administrators. He has also published widely in the field of research administration and the management of grants and contracts. He has served on national committees at the Federal Demonstration Partnership, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the Office of Navel Research, and the National Academies. He served as president of the National Council of University Research Administrators, the Northeast Section president of the Society of Research Administrators, and the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership. In 1999 he was ordained in the Catholic Church as a deacon and has provided ministry in parishes, nursing homes, hospitals, prisons, and youth programs. He is also a chaplain in the Boy Scouts of America. Robert has been married for over 40 years and has four children and two grandchildren. His latest book is My Spiritual Exercises published in 2011 by Twin Creeks Press.