Anthony Roberts is a former United States Army Officer. He is a graduate of the New School where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
He currently serves as a Julian Robertson Leadership Fellow with Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City and is an adjunct professor of writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
He has also taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and at Seton Hall University.
He is the author of two books of poetry. His first book, Pigtown, published in 2017 by Red Dashboard Publications is hybrid form that explores adolescence in inner city Baltimore in the late 80s and early 90s. His second book, The Clearing Barrel, is a full length volume that examines, family, history, and the experience of war and its aftermath.