Robin Romm

Robin Romm’s short story collection The Mother Garden was a finalist for the PEN USA Prize. Her memoir The Mercy Papers was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a New Times Editor’s Choice, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and an Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year. Romm’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the UK Observer, O Magazine, the Sun, Tin House, One Story, Threepenny Review, the Antioch Review, Shenandoah, Gulf Coast, and many other publications. Romm has spoken widely about writing and grief—at Columbia Medical School, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Red Bird Grief Center, as well as in private workshops. She’s a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and teaches at the low-residency MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson.