Robert J. Weber received a doctorate in psychology from Princeton University. He has professed in New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Massachusetts, and New Mexico. His last position was as a Visiting Research Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico. His hobbies and evocations include photo editing to remove the stress fractures of reality—and writing to explore imagination’s reach. 

He has presented workshops on Translating Film Techniques into Poetry and advocated for writing and verse as performance art. These works and activities formed the basis for his seminars on invention and creativity.

Books:
Forks, Photographs, and Hot Air Balloons: A Field Guide to Inventive Thinking. Oxford University Press. A look into key inventions and how the mind influenced them.

Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology. (Edited with D. N. Perkins). Oxford University Press. An exploration of the roots of ingenuity.

The Created Self: Reinventing Body, Persona, and Spirit. W. W. Norton. Pulling ideas from inventing and translating them to personal improvement and creation of the self.

Poems from the Rainbow’s Bow. Mercury Heartlink. Selected as the Poetry Book of the Year by the Cambridge, Massachusetts Book Club (2023). A poetry anothology full of deep ideas and history. 

Swimming in an Ocean of Words. Buster Bodhi Press. A discussion on creative writing and thinking. Coming soon!