Kristin Robie
Kristin Robie, a long-time New York City resident, was born into a family of military officers. Just as the anti-war movement was exploding, she enrolled at Brandeis University, majoring in English and American Literature focused on Poetry. Her poetry professor was poet laureate Howard Nemerov. Her Honors thesis was a film script of Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry.
After graduating with Honors she worked in medical publishing, a springboard to medical school. Graduating from Columbia University and Bowman Grey School of Medicine (now Wake Forest School of Medicine), she practiced Internal Medicine (MD, FACP) in underserved communities in the boroughs of New York City —and in Florida—always continuing to write poetry.
She has been affiliated with Parkside Poets, Jefferson Market Poets, the Su Polo Saturn series, the Green Pavilion, and Riverside Poets, among others, and participated in the pre-pandemic vibrant and funky New York poetry reading scene. She edited the 2020 Riverside Poets Anthology.
She has published in anthologies such as Riverside Poets (2014-2020), in Hearts Breaking Into Love (Middle of Silence Gallery, 1980) and authored The Skies Above, the Sighs Below (1993). In 2016 she read at Eisteddfod, the annual poetry and music competition in Wales.
Divorced, she is the proud mother of Haku Andou (Julia-Lucero Rosa) who teaches English in Tokyo, Japan. Retired from medicine she is free at last to publish her first book of poems.
