Editing Robert Wolf (writer) (section)

==Career==
By 1987, having settled in Chicago, Wolf wrote a weekly column and features for the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. In 1988 he married singer and artist [[Bonnie Koloc]] and the couple moved to Nashville, where Wolf organized a writing workshop for the homeless. In 1990, Wolf, along with Steven Meinbresse, established [[Free River Press]], a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Initially intended as a publishing vehicle for the homeless, Wolf expanded the press's mission to "create a collective autobiography of America.

When Wolf and Koloc moved to rural Iowa, Wolf began running writing workshops for neighboring farmers. The workshop resulted in three books published by [[Free River Press]]. Since then Wolf has conducted workshops not only throughout the Midwest, but in the Mississippi Delta, the Southwest, and in New York and Chicago.

In 1999, [[Oxford University Press]] published ''[[An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk]]'', selected from the first nine years of Free River Press writings.

His early Iowa experiences led Wolf to begin writing about the ongoing farm and rural crisis and to begin, in 1994, writing about the need for rural America to develop self-reliant, decentralized regional economies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freeriverpress.org/staff.html |title=Staff &#124; Free River Press - Telling America's Story |access-date=2012-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305195255/http://www.freeriverpress.org/staff.html |archive-date=March 5, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

[[Free River Press]] publications have appeared on [[CBS]] News Sunday as well as [[NPR]]'s ''[[All Things Considered]]'' and ''[[Morning Edition]]''. Since 2010 Wolf lhas produced a weekly radio program for [[Free River Press]], ''American Mosaic'', airing on community stations in a dozen states.<ref name=about>{{cite web|title=Biography {{!}} Robert Wolf|url=http://robertwolfwriter.com/bio/|publisher=Robert Wolf|access-date=April 12, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111165513/http://robertwolfwriter.com/bio/|archive-date=November 11, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>