Adapted from her original screenplay, Robin’s debut novel MALCOLM AND ME is a 2021 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List finalist, a 2021 Human Relations Children’s Indie Book Award Gold Winner, a 2021 Library of Virginia Literary Award nominee, and a 2022 YAVA Award nominee.
A 2019 winner of the She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) Contest, Robin is a national award-winning journalist and a seasoned storyteller. Nearly every major award she has won involves stories about young people.
Her scripts, including one she wrote, produced and directed for the 48 Hour Film Festival in 2010, generally revolve around adolescent girls struggling with truth, identity and empowering their marginalized communities.
A longtime member of James River Writers, she is a former board member and its 2018 and 2017 Conference Chair.
Her accolades include residencies at the Rowland Writers Retreat, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and selection as one of 12 American reporters for an eight-month Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she studied screenwriting.
She is currently adapting another original screenplay into a YA novel.
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Disconnect
Romance/Short
A young techie discovers that the best connection is human.
Without A Net
Comedy/Short
Two young circus performers pressured into following their parents’ footsteps create their own second acts.
On Trees
Magical Realism/Short
A young environmentalist learns that nature is a gift that keeps on giving.
Just Desserts
Drama/Short
A philandering detective investigating the death of a cheesecake heiress soon learns that revenge is a dish best served frosty.