Robin Romm
Robin Romm is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction.
Robin Romm was born in Eugene, Oregon. She attended Brown University, where she studied English literature and won the Barbara Banks Brodsky prize in fiction. After working as an employment discrimination investigator in San Francisco, CA for two years, she went back to school and received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her 2005 chapbook, The Tilt, was published by Fourteen Hills Press as the Michael Rubin Prize in Fiction. She published her first full-length collection of stories, The Mother Garden, with Scribner in 2007. She published her memoir, The Mercy Papers, with Scribner in 2010. She teaches for the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is a longtime staff member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley where she teaches in the fiction and nonfiction/memoir workshops.
