Robin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers, and author of the book, The Mansion of Happiness (University of Georgia Press, VQR Poetry Series, November 2009). Her work has appeared widely, in The Atlantic Monthly, POETRY, APR, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Triquarterly, New England Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She's received grants, awards, and scholarships from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts.