Robin Kirk

Kirk is the author of Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes around the World, from Chicago Review Press (June 2022). She is also the author of The Bond Trilogy: The Bond, The Hive Queen, and The Mother's Wheel, a young adult fantasy. She has published multiple non-fiction books, including More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs and America’s War in Colombia (PublicAffairs) and The Monkey’s Paw: New Chronicles from Peru (University of Massachusetts Press). Her poetry collection, Peculiar Motion, was called "incandescent" by poet Jennifer Gresham. She is the coeditor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University) and helps edit Duke University Press’s World Readers series. Her essay on Belfast is included in the 2012 Best Travel Writing edition edited by William T. Vollman. Kirk authored, co-authored, and edited over twelve reports for Human Rights Watch, all available online. In the 1980s, Kirk reported for U.S. media from Peru, where she covered the war between the government and the Shining Path. During that time, she also prepared reports for the U.S. Committee on Refugees, including the first report ever on the plight of Peru’s internally displaced people. Kirk is a former Radcliffe Bunting Fellow and is a past winner of the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for Freelance Writing. She teaches human rights at Duke University.