Roxana Robinson

Roxana Robinson is the award-winning author of six novels, including her new novel Leaving, and three short story collections. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, and other publications. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, and she was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Robinson has served on the Boards of PEN and the Authors Guild, and was the president of the Authors Guild. She lives in New York City and Connecticut, spends as much time as she can in Maine, and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.