Robin Black

Robin Black​’s story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize, and named a Best Book of 2010 by numerous publications. Her novel, Life Drawing, was longlisted for ​the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Impac Dublin Literature Prize, and the Folio Prize. ​Her works of fiction have been translated into six languages.​​ ​​Her new book​, ​Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide​, has been​​ called “an oasis for writers at any stage,” by Karen Russell​.
Robin​’s essays and stories can be found in such publications as One Story, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Southern Review, The Rumpus, O. Magazine, and Conde Nast Traveler. She​ lives in Philadelphia with her husband, and will begin teaching in the Rutgers-Camden MFA Program, Fall 2016.