So good to see you!	Robin Parks grew up on welfare in Southern California, where she spent her twenties being a waitress. Then—after a fateful meeting with Dorothy Allison—she decided to be a writer. She moved to the Pacific Northwest and landed on a tiny island off the coast of Bellingham, Washington. Some years later, she met her future husband, blind writer Sean F. Toner. They live happily in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.