Robin Romm is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction books.

Biography

Robin Romm was born in

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, Oregon. She attended

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, where she studied English literature and won the Barbara Banks Brodsky prize in fiction. After working as an

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investigator in San Francisco, CA for two years, she went back to school and received an MFA in creative writing from

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. 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, which was a

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Notable Book of the Year and received an "A" from

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. She teaches for the low-residency MFA program at

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. She is a longtime staff member of the

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where she teaches in the fiction and nonfiction/memoir workshops. She also writes book reviews for The New York Times.

Personal life

Romm lives in

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, Oregon. She is married with two kids. Her husband, Don Waters, is also a writer and a professor.

Bibliography

* 2005, The Tilt, * 2007, The Mother Garden: Stories, * 2009, The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, * 2017, Double Bind: Women on Ambition, * 2017, It's What You Think (When You Think About Cheating),

References

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