Robin Romm is the author of several books, the short story collections Radical Empathy, The Mother Garden (finalist, PEN/USA Prize), and The Tilt; the memoir The Mercy Papers (New York Times Notable Book, EW Best Book of the Year), and an edited anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition. She's also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Wired and O Magazine. She has taught in universities and prisons all over the country. She's the recipient of a 2024 O'Henry Prize in short fiction. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.
Praise
The ten stories—all marvels—in Robin Romm's Radical Empathy establish once and for all that she's a master of the short story. In switchblade-wicked prose, Romm conjures the realities of love, marriage, parenthood, and work so vividly that they bust the bounds of what passes for safely "normal." A beautiful, brilliant, devastating collection.
Ben Fountain,
author of Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk
Next Event
READING, 7:30, JULY 9, 2025
Community of Writers Conference
Olympic Valley, CA