Robin Bradford is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her work has been published most recently in Glimmer Train, Boston Review, Quarterly West and Brain, Child. Her monthly column, “Motherload,” appears at www.austinmama.com. An O. Henry Award winner, Bradford has been honored with a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Texas Literature Grant, and the Chelsea Best Short Story Prize. Bradford earned a graduate degree at Brown University, studying in John Hawkes’ last class.

A passionate teacher, Bradford has led writing workshops for children, teens and adults at venues ranging from an affordable housing community center to The University of Texas at Austin. A long-time contributor to The Austin Chronicle, Bradford has published numerous author interviews, articles and book reviews.

Born in Japan, Bradford grew up in Oklahoma, graduated from high school in Houston, and moved East to attend college before finally settling in Austin, Texas, in 1988. A masters swimmer, Bradford recently completed her first triathlon. She lives with her husband, son, two cats and a dog.