Robin Romm

Robin Romm is the author of two short story collections, The Mother Garden , and Radical Empathy ; a chapbook of stories, The Tilt ; as well as a memoir, The Mercy Papers (a New York Times Notable Book). She also compiled and edited the essay collection, Double Bind: Women on Ambition . She's been awarded an O'Henry Prize in short fiction, and was a finalist for the Pen USA prize for her first collection. Her journalism and nonfiction writing have appeared in The Atlantic , The New York Times ...See more

Robin Romm is the author of two short story collections, The Mother Garden , and Radical Empathy ; a chapbook of stories, The Tilt ; as well as a memoir, The Mercy Papers (a New York Times Notable Book). She also compiled and edited the essay collection, Double Bind: Women on Ambition . She's been awarded an O'Henry Prize in short fiction, and was a finalist for the Pen USA prize for her first collection. Her journalism and nonfiction writing have appeared in The Atlantic , The New York Times , Wired , O Magazine , Parents , and Slate . She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, the writer Don Waters, and their two spitfire daughters. See less