Robin Romm is the author of several books, the short story collections The Mother Garden and Radical Empathy, the memoir The Mercy Papers, and the editor of the anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition. She’s been awarded numerous fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, and won a 2024 O’Henry Prize. Her work has appeared in many places, such as The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, O Magazine, and Wired. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her daughters and spouse, Don Waters. [Fiction/Memoir]