Robert Bly (1926-2021) was an American poet, author, activist, translator, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His book Iron John: A Book About Men was a key text of the movement, and spent 62 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He won the 1968 National Book Award for poetry for his book The Light Around the Body, and was named Minnesota's first poet laureate in 2008. He also received the Maurice English Poetry Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement.

Bly's other poetic works include More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales, Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, and Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013.