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Robin Parks

About Robin

"Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté." —Margaret Atwood 

SHORT STORIES

"Bad Math," Perigee
“La Playa,” The Raven Chronicles
"Las Golondrinas," Best of Carve Magazine Anthology
“Belgian Country Inn,” Stringtown
“My New Grandmother,” Pearl Magazine
“Las Golondrinas,” Carve Magazine
“Home On the Range,” Prism International
“The Old Rugged Cross,” Women’s Words
 
ESSAYS

"The Bleeding Eye," Serving House: A Journal of Literary Arts

“Give Me a W!” Writers On the Job (webdelsol)

“Thanksgiving,” The MacGuffin
“Meditations on Form, or How Should I Tell You What I Need You to Know,” Philosophy and Everyday Life (anthology)
 


AWARDS / HONORS

Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee (for memoir)
Finalist, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest
InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia) "Writing Aloud" performance of two stories
I performed one of my stories on WXPN
Finalist, BkMk Press Chandra Book Prize
Presidential Fellowship in Creative Writing, FDU
Resident: Cottages at Hedgebrook
Raymond Carver Short Story Award
Two nominations for Pushcart Prizes
Carve Magazine Fiction Award
Finalist, Glimmer Train Contest for New Writers

EDUCATION

MFA, Creative Writing, Fairleigh Dickinson University
MA, English, Western Washington University
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University-Long Beach

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 
Associate Director of Communications/Publications, Bryn Mawr College
Managing Editor, Bryn Mawr College
Online Instructor, Excelsior College
Online Instructor, Arts Institute
Online Instructor, Rasmussen College
Online Instructor, Strayer University
Communications Consultant, ThreeSixty Productions, Bellingham, Washington
Publications Services Supervisor, Western Washington University
Freelance Writer/Editor/Designer, Robin Graphics
Senior Editor, St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach
Communications Manager, AIDS Project Los Angeles