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Robin Romm

Robin Romm
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Robin Romm

Robin Romm is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, The Mother Garden, which was a finalist for the 2008 PEN USA Fiction Award. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, she currently lives in Berkeley, California, and New Mexico,... Read full bio

Author Revealed:
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Why do this when you can write a whole memoir?
Learn more about Robin Romm
My life in 8 words: "Why do this when you can write a whole memoir?"
Jan 07, 2010
The Mercy Papers will be released on December 29, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 29, 2009
The Mercy Papers is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 29, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Mother Garden
May 19, 2009
The Mother Garden is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 10, 2009
The Mother Garden will be released on March 10, 2009 in
Mar 10, 2009
The Mother Garden is now available in
Mar 10, 2009
Excerpt:
Text Excerpt 1 from The Mercy Papers
Jan 29, 2009
The Mercy Papers is now available in Hardcover
Jan 06, 2009
The Mercy Papers is now available in eBook
Jan 06, 2009
The Mercy Papers will be released on January 06, 2009 in
Jan 06, 2009
The Mercy Papers is now available in
Jan 06, 2009
The Mercy Papers will be released on January 06, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008
The Mercy Papers will be released on January 06, 2009 in eBook
Dec 19, 2008
The Mother Garden will be released on March 10, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
The Mother Garden will be released on July 10, 2007 in Hardcover
Jul 10, 2007

Robin Romm Revealed

Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. This changes so often, but since I was able to talk, I've loved Johnny Cash. Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. Loss. Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. Again, I would be a country music star with bangles and boots. Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. I don't know. Maybe...an underwater rock in a tropical sea. Learn more about Robin Romm

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Kalamazoo Gazette, September 19, 2011
...middle class without an ounce of condescension, martyrdom, or sensationalism.” In the New York Times in July, writer Robin Romm wrote: “Though diverse in style and point of view — one story takes place on a ship hijacked by Somali pirates, another...
Media Bistro, August 10, 2011
...Awards presented for the first time in 2011. Judges for the inaugural awards: Reif Larsen, David Lehman, and Robin Romm. Fiction Smith Henderson (nominated by Hannah Tinti of One Story) Nonfiction David Stuart MacLean (nominated by Ladette Randolph of...
Press-Citizen, July 22, 2011
...to be a lively discussion of book reviewing from me and fellow reviewers Rob Cline, John Kenyon and Robin Romm. For a full festival schedule visit www.iowacitybookfestival.org...
Maisonnueve, March 7, 2011
...The Rumpus —https://therumpus.net/2011/02/vida-the-count-roundup/ 13.) Why It Matters That Fewer Women Are Published in Literary Magazines — Robin Romm @ Double X...
Las Cruces Sun-News, February 15, 2011
...NMSU President Barbara Couture reviewing "The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks" written by NMSU faculty member Robin Romm. Reviewers in the series include Chris Erickson, Carrie Murphy, Susan Beck, Jeff Brown and Cindy Pierard. Listen to the...
The Rumpus.net, June 16, 2011
...of a family member and J. Crew’s summer catalog have in common? Nothing, which is why memoirist Robin Romm wrote this piece in Slate about their eerily similar aesthetic. The popsicle on the cover of her book was a symbol of her mother’s declining...
PowellsBooks.Blog, May 18, 2011
...of our favorite writers, who called Katie Arnold-Ratliff's debut "an eerie, impeccably told story," or with Robin Romm, who raved, What a rare book! Bright before Us is an unrequited love story, but it's also a meditation about the flash decisions we...