Robin Ekiss is a 2008 Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a 2007 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers, and a former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.