{{Short description|American writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{BLP primary sources|date=June 2013}}

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

== Biography == 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eventful.com/cedarhill/events/northwood-literary-festival-/E0-001-007217548-9|title=Eventful: See Calendar of Events & Shows &#124; Audacy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Robin Romm|url=https://store.friendsofwriters.org/robin-romm-2/|access-date=2022-01-29|website=Friends of Writers Store|language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 1889292060|title = The Tilt|last1 = Romm|first1 = Robin|date = January 2005| publisher=Fourteen Hills Press }}</ref> She published her first full-length collection of stories, The Mother Garden, with Scribner in 2007.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Mother-Garden-Robin-Romm/dp/B003R4ZKQU|title = The Mother Garden: Stories|date = March 10, 2009|publisher = Scribner}}</ref> She published her memoir, The Mercy Papers, with Scribner in 2010,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Hager|first=Leah|last2=|first2=|date=2009-01-06|title=Book review: 'The Mercy Papers' and 'Downtown Owl'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/arts/08iht-bookjeu.1.19124897.html|access-date=2022-01-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> which was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robin Romm|url=https://store.friendsofwriters.org/robin-romm-2/|access-date=2022-01-29|website=Friends of Writers Store|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/100-notable-books-of-2009-gift-guide/list.html?|access-date=2022-01-29|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> and received an "A" from ''Entertainment Weekly''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tinti|first=Hannah|title=Robin Romm gets the cover of NYTBR! {{!}} One Story Blog|url=https://www.one-story.com/blog/?p=460|access-date=2022-01-29|language=en-US}}</ref>

She teaches for the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.themfaprogramforwritersatwarrenwilsoncollege.com/faculty-2/ |title=FACULTY &#124; the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College |access-date=June 10, 2013 |archive-date=November 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119111148/http://www.themfaprogramforwritersatwarrenwilsoncollege.com/faculty-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She is a longtime staff member of the Community of Writers where she teaches in the fiction and nonfiction/memoir workshops.

She also writes book reviews for ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-01-11|title=Is There a Silver Lining to Loss? This Memoir Shows Its Shimmer.|work=The New York Times |language=en|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/books/review/lost-and-found-kathryn-schulz.html|access-date=2022-01-29|last1=Romm |first1=Robin }}</ref>

== Personal life == Romm lives in Portland, Oregon. She is married with two children. Her husband, Don Waters, is also a writer and a professor.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ettinger {{!}}|first=Zoe|title=Women Authors Cope with the Pandemic|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/84388-women-authors-cope-with-the-pandemic.html|access-date=2022-01-29|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* 2005, The Tilt, {{ISBN|978-1889292069}} * 2007, The Mother Garden: Stories, {{ISBN|978-1416539025}} * 2009, The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, {{ISBN|978-1416567882}} <ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Hager|first=Leah|last2=|first2=|date=2009-01-06|title=Book review: 'The Mercy Papers' and 'Downtown Owl'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/arts/08iht-bookjeu.1.19124897.html|access-date=2022-01-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/100-notable-books-of-2009-gift-guide/list.html?|access-date=2022-01-29|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> * 2017, Double Bind: Women on Ambition, {{ISBN|978-1631491214}}<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-04-04|title=5 New Books on Money, Career, and Work-Life Balance for Women, by Women|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/financial-books-career-money-equal-pay-day|access-date=2022-01-29|website=Vogue|language=en-US}}</ref> * 2017, It's What You Think (When You Think About Cheating), {{ISBN|978-1536640786}}

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