Robin Romm is the author of two acclaimed books. Her recent memoir, The Mercy Papers, was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Book and received an A grade from Entertainment Weekly. Her collection of stories, The Mother Garden, was a finalist for the PEN USA prize and the Northern California Independent Bookseller's Book of the Year Award. It is now available in paperback.

Her stories have appeared in numerous national journals (Tin House, One Story, Threepenny Review) and anthologies. She lives in New Mexico with her boyfriend, the writer Don Waters, and their cattle dog, Mercy. In the fall, she will join the faculty of the MFA program at New Mexico State University.