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Roxanna Robinson is the author of 10 books, including six novels, three short story collections,

and the biography of Georgia O'Keefe. Four of these were New York Times notable books.

Robinson was born in Kentucky, but grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She attended

Bennington College and graduated from the University of Michigan. She worked in the art world,

specializing in the field of American painting before she

began writing full-time. Her novel, Cost, was a finalist for the N.EBA, was named one of the five

best fiction books of the year by the Washington Post, and received the fiction award from the

Maine Publishers and Writers Association. Her novel, Sparta, was named one of the 10 best books of the

year by the BBC and won the James Webb Award

for Distinguished Fiction from the USMC Heritage Foundation and the Fiction Award from the main

publishers and writers association. Her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, The New Yorker,

Harper's, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the

New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Forum, Harper's, and elsewhere. She was twice has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, book

forum, Harper's, and elsewhere. She was twice a finalist for the NBCC-Balachian Award for Criticism

and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

She teaches at Hunter College, has twice served on the board of Penn, and is a former president

of the Authors Guild, where she continues to serve as a member of the council. Her new novel Leaving is out from Norton.

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