Robin is a poet,
copywriter,
teacher, and baker,
not necessarily in that order.
She is partial to the use of the serial
comma,
but can be swayed.
A former
Stegner Fellow at Stanford and recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for
emerging women
writers,
Robin's poems and prose have appeared in
The
Atlantic Monthly, APR, POETRY, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares,
The
Kenyon Review, New England Review, Black Warrior Review, VQR,
and elsewhere. She's received grants, awards, and scholarships from the
Barbara Deming Memorial
Fund, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation,
and Bread Loaf
Writers'
Conference, and residencies from The MacDowell Colony,
Millay
Colony for the Arts,
and Headlands Center for the Arts.
Her first book of
poems, The
Mansion of Happiness, was published by the
University of Georgia Press VQR Poetry Series. It won the 2010
Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and was a finalist for
the Balcones Poetry Prize, the Northern California Book Award, and the
Commonwealth Club's California Book Award.
photo by Matt Schumaker
