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Bob Haynes currently teaches professional and technical writing classes at ASU and is the Director of the Professional Writing Certificate Program. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the student-run literary magazine Marooned. His background includes journalism studies at The George Washington University, Professional Publishing at Stanford University, and Creative Writing right here at ASU. He retired from NASA in 1998 and has been teaching at ASU since 2002.

Bob is the former Division Director of NASA Ames Research Center's publishing, video, photography, and graphics department. As a writer for the Teacher-in-Space program, he also created educational science for students and educators, producing titles such as Spacesuit (which was the recipient of a Presidental Design Award in 1991); How We Get Pictures From Space; Sentinels in the Sky; and Threshold of Space, and Space Machines (A Golden Book by Western Publishing). Recognized by numerous Blue Pencil Awards for excellence, he also edited Michael Collins's best-selling, Lift Off! a post-Challenger account of the American Space Program and served as a NASA publication specialist on the Roger's Commission report.

Technical and Creative Writer

Bob Haynes has also written educational non-fiction for children and his poetry has been featured on Verse Daily. During the 1970s and 80s, while living in Washington, DC, he published a literary journal, sponsored writing contests, and conducted literary events in DC and Alexandria, Virginia. Also during that time, he served as a member of the Folgers Poetry Committee for the Greater Washington, DC, Area, and assisted in the judging of readers for the Word Works, Inc., annual Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series (Summer in the Park). He is the only NASA Publication Officer to have commissioned a poem by then National Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov to document the launch of a Space Shuttle.

He has published works in journals such as Bellingham Review, Nimrod, New Letters, Lake Effect, Poetry Northwest, Cimarron Review, First Intensity, Louisville Review, and elsewhere. Work has been reprinted in the anthologies Cabin Fever, Kansas City Out Loud, and Approaching Critical Mass, as well as in the writing textbook Important Words (Boynton/Cook Heinemann).