Robin Greene is the author of five books: The Shelf Life of Fire (novel, 2019), Augustus: Narrative of a Slave Woman (novel, 2011), Real Birth, Women Share Their Stories (nonfiction, 2015), Lateral Drift (poetry, 2002), Memories of Light (poetry, 1991), and she regularly publishes essays, poems, and fiction in journals.
A former award-winning English and Writing professor and director of a university writing center, Greene held an endowed chair and is a past recipient of a NEA/NC Arts Council fellowship in writing.
Greene served as a board member of the NC Writer’s Network and for years taught writing workshops in Mexico. She now writes fulltime, teaches yoga in western NC, hosts an annual women’s writing and yoga retreat, and serves as a writing mentor and editor. Additionally, Greene conducts workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, grammar, and memoir.
Greene is a cofounder and board member of Longleaf Press (longleafpress.org) and founder and editor of Ley Lines Literary Review (leylinesliteraryreview.net), a new online literary journal.
Originally from Queens and Long Island, NY, Greene lives in Hendersonville, NC, with her husband. She holds an MFA in Writing and an MA in Literature.
Greene has recently completed a new novel, A Grammar of Unspeakable Things, and a new collection of poetry, Family Savasana, and is working on another novel. The third edition of her nonfiction book, Real Birth, Women Share Their Stories, is forthcoming in 2026.
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